NASA's Expedition 68 Crew 6 head to the International Space Station

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NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 mission members successfully launched to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:34 a.m. EST on March 2. NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, United Arab Emirates (UAE) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev have embarked on a science expedition to the International Space Station aboard the Dragon spacecraft named Endeavour. The spacecraft was launched into orbit by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

“Crew-6 will be busy aboard the International Space Station, conducting over 200 experiments that will help us to prepare for missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, as well as improve life here on Earth. We look forward to seeing all that they accomplish,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a blog. It further says that SpaceX will monitor a series of automatic spacecraft operations from its mission control centre in Hawthorne, California during the Dragon's flight. The NASA team will monitor the entire operations during the mission.

The International Space Station confirmed via Tweet that the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour docked to the station's Harmony module at 1:40 am ET today. The four Crew 6 crewmates will enter the orbiting lab at around 3:18 am. After this, the crew will join the Expedition 68 mission along with NASA's astronauts Frank Rubio, Nicole Mann, and Josh Cassada. There will be around 11 crew members at a time for a shorter duration in space until Crew-5 members return to Earth a few days later, NASA confirmed.

Expedition 68 began in September 2022 and ends in March 2023. This expedition included research investigations primarily focused on biology, Earth science, human research, physical