During a media teleconference at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, February 21, NASA provided an update on NASA’s SpaceX Crew -6 mission to the International Space Station. Launch from Kennedy Launch Complex 39A will take place on Monday, February 27 at 1:45 PM EST. A live stream of launch day on NASA TV and on the agency’s website begins at 10 PM ET. Sunday, February 26.

NASA and SpaceX executives, along with international partners, met on Tuesday as part of a Mission Readiness Review (FRR) in preparation for SpaceX’s sixth crew rotation mission to the Microgravity Laboratory. FRR focused on the flight support readiness of SpaceX’s crew transport system, the space station, and its international partners, as well as on flight readiness certification.

The Crew-6 launch will feature two NASA astronauts, mission commander Stephen Bowen and pilot Warren “Woody” Hoburg, as well as UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andriy Fedyaev, who will be mission specialists. A space station for a scientific exploration mission. They will fly aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavor spacecraft, which will carry the company’s Falcon 9 rocket.

Crew-6 will spend up to six months on the space station before returning to Earth. The mission was Bowen’s fourth spaceflight, commanding the space shuttle missions STS-126 in 2008, STS-132 in 2010, and STS-133 in 2011. Crew-6 will be the first spaceflight for Hoburg, Alneyadi and Fedyaev.

On February 21, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 crew arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin final preparations for their mission to the International Space Station.

NASA astronauts Steven Bowen and Warren “Woody” Hoburg, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andriy Fedyaev arrived at Kennedy Space Center around 12:20 pm on February 21, after leaving Ellington Field near the agency. Johnson Space Center in Houston.