WASHINGTON DC – The United States Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will send four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday (31/10). The four astronauts will be launched to the ISS aboard the Crew Dragon “Endurance” spacecraft mounted on a Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
“Astronauts on the ‘Crew-3’ mission will spend six months on the ISS conducting research in a variety of fields including materials science, health and botany,” NASA said in a statement Wednesday (27/10).
“Their research will help inform future space exploration and benefit life on Earth,” NASA added.
The names of the astronauts are Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron from the US, as well as Matthias Maurer, an astronaut from the European Space Agency (ESA) from Germany.
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Of the four astronauts, only Marshburn has gone into space aboard the space shuttle in 2009 and a Russian Soyuz rocket on the 2012-13 mission. SB / AFP / I-1
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