A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule is set to carry a batch of astronauts to the International Space Station for the fourth time when it blasts …
A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule is set to carry a batch of astronauts to the International Space Station for the fourth time when it blasts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop a Falcon 9 rocket in the early hours of Halloween this Sunday. The NASA astronauts on this Dragon’s passenger list are former US Navy submarine warfare officer Kayla Barron, test pilot Raja Chari and veteran astronaut and emergency physician Tom Marshburn, along with European astronaut Matthias Maurer, a German materials scientist who has been with the European Space Agency for over a decade. During their six months aboard the ISS, the Crew-3 astronauts are slated to do multiple spacewalks for space station maintenance and also help perform scientific research in orbit involving fiberoptics, growing plants without soil and how astronauts‘ eyes change from exposure to space, among other experiments.
