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SpaceX is set to launch four people to the International Space Station from Florida on Wednesday, as Elon Musk’s company keeps up a steady pace of crewed missions.
Known as Crew-5, the mission for NASA will bring the group up to the ISS for a six-month stay in orbit. The mission is SpaceX’s fifth operational crew launch for NASA to date, and the company’s eighth human spaceflight in just over two years.
The Crew-5 mission will bring the number of astronauts SpaceX has launched to 30, including both government and private missions.
Crew-5 is scheduled to liftoff at 12:00 p.m. ET, beginning an estimated 29-hour journey to dock with the ISS.
Left to right: Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina, NASA astronaut Josh Cassada, NASA astronaut Nicole Mann, and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata arrive ahead of the launch of the SpaceX Crew-5 mission from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on October 5, 2022.
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SpaceX is launching the astronauts in its Crew Dragon capsule called Endurance, on top of a Falcon 9 rocket. Both the rocket and capsule are reusable.
The Endurance is flying to space for a second time – having flown the Crew-3 mission to and from the ISS in the past year.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon capsule stands on Pad-39A in preparation for a mission to carry four crew members to the International Space Station from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, October 4, 2022.
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