will bring the group up to the space station for a six-month stay in orbit. The mission is SpaceX's sixth operational crew launch for NASA to date, and the first of the additional missions the agency awarded SpaceX.
Crew-7 launched in the early hours of Saturday morning from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, beginning a nearly one day journey to the ISS.The mission brings the number of astronauts SpaceX has launched to 42, including both government and private missions, since its first crewed launch in May 2020. Crew-7 consists of NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli as the commander, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen from Denmark as the pilot, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov as mission specialists.
Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, wearing SpaceX spacesuits wave as they prepare to board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-7 mission launch, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Aug. 26, 2023.SpaceX launched the astronauts in its Crew Dragon capsule called Endurance, on top of a Falcon 9 rocket.