![]() ![]() And I think we will be ambassadors in these missions. "Our region is also thirsty to learn more. "It's for the sake of science, for the sake of spreading the knowledge about how important it is to fly (in space) and to push the boundaries of exploration, not only in the leading countries. ![]() "I think it's going to be really interesting," Alneyadi said after arriving at the Kennedy Space Center last week. During his expedition, two Saudi fliers will visit the lab complex for about a week as part of a commercial mission managed by Houston-based Axiom Space. They'll share the station with Crew 6 for most of that time.Īlneyadi, a father of six, is the second Emerati to fly in space but the first named to a full-duration six-month stay aboard the station. The spacecraft successfully docked with the station Saturday night, providing Prokopyev and his crewmates with a safe ride home.īut to get the crew rotation schedule back on track, the trio will have to spend an additional six months in space, coming home this fall after a full year in orbit. Instead, a replacement Soyuz - MS-23 - was launched last Thursday, carrying equipment and supplies instead of a crew. After an analysis, Russian engineers concluded the spacecraft could not safely be used again because of the possibility sensitive systems could overheat. They launched to the lab last September and originally planned to fly home in March.īut their Soyuz MS-22 ferry ship was crippled December 14 when a presumed micrometeoroid ruptured a coolant line. They arrived at the station last October and plan to return to Earth around March 6 to close out a 151-day mission.Īlso welcoming the Crew-6 fliers will be Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio. Whenever Crew-6 takes off, Bowen and company will be welcomed aboard the station by Crew-5 commander Nicole Mann, Josh Cassada, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata and cosmonaut Anna Kikina, the first Russian to launch aboard a Crew Dragon. Those flights appeared to remain on schedule, but bad weather threatened the California launch. 27, 2023.Īlong with disappointing the crew, the scrub also spoiled a chance for SpaceX to launch three Falcon 9s in just 13 hours with afternoon launches planned in Florida and California to put two batches of Starlink internet satellites into orbit. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the companys Crew Dragon spacecraft vents fuel prior to a scrubbed launch from pad 39A for the Crew-6 mission at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Mission managers passed up a Tuesday launch try because of expected bad weather and Wednesday was ruled out because of space station rendezvous requirements. If the problem can be resolved in time, NASA and SpaceX will make another attempt to launch the Crew-6 mission at 12:34 a.m. The scrub was triggered by a problem with the engine igniter fluid, a chemical known as triethylaluminum triethylboron, or "TEA-TEB," that reacts with liquid oxygen to spin up the Falcon 9's nine first stage engines. ![]()
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