NASA astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann is seen during a NASA event where it was announced that she, NASA astronaut Eric Boe, and Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson are assigned to the Boeing CST-100 Starliner Crew Test Flight to the International Space Station, Friday, Aug. 3, 2018 at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Astronauts assigned to crew the first flight tests and missions of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon where announced during the event. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
The first U.S. astronauts who will fly on American-made, commercial spacecraft to and from the International Space Station, wave after being announced, Friday, Aug. 3, 2018 at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The astronauts are, from left to right: Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, Bob Behnken, Doug Hurley, Nicole Aunapu Mann, Chris Ferguson, Eric Boe, Josh Cassada, and Suni Williams. The agency assigned the nine astronauts to crew the first flight tests and missions of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
The first U.S. astronauts who will fly on American-made, commercial spacecraft to and from the International Space Station, wave after being announced, Friday, Aug. 3, 2018 at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The astronauts are, from left to right: Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, Bob Behnken, Doug Hurley, Nicole Aunapu Mann, Chris Ferguson, Eric Boe, Josh Cassada, and Suni Williams. The agency assigned the nine astronauts to crew the first flight tests and missions of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, far right, talks to astronauts assigned to crew the first flight tests and missions of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon, Friday, Aug. 3, 2018 at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Astronauts Bob Behnken, left, Victor Glover, Doug Hurley, and Mike Hopkins will fly SpaceX's Crew Dragon flights, and astronauts Eric Boe, Suni Williams, Chris Ferguson, Josh Cassada, and Nicole Aunapu Mann, right, will fly on Boeing's CST-100 Starliner. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
The first U.S. astronauts who will fly on American-made, commercial spacecraft to and from the International Space Station, wave after being announced, Friday, Aug. 3, 2018 at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Astronauts Bob Behnken, left, Victor Glover, Doug Hurley, and Mike Hopkins will fly SpaceX's Crew Dragon flights, and astronauts Eric Boe, Suni Williams, Chris Ferguson, Josh Cassada, and Nicole Aunapu Mann, right, will fly on Boeing's CST-100 Starliner. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
jsc2022e068614 (June 13, 2022) --- SpaceX Crew-5 Commander Nicole Aunapu Mann from NASA poses for a portrait in her Crew Dragon flight suit at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX
jsc2022e068615 (June 13, 2022) --- SpaceX Crew-5 Commander Nicole Aunapu Mann from NASA poses for a portrait in her Crew Dragon flight suit at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX
jsc2022e068607 (June 13, 2022) --- SpaceX Crew-5 Commander Nicole Aunapu Mann from NASA is pictured during a Crew Dragon cockpit training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX
jsc2022e068603 (June 13, 2022) --- SpaceX Crew-5 Commander Nicole Aunapu Mann from NASA is pictured during a Crew Dragon cockpit training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX
jsc2022e068604 (June 13, 2022) --- SpaceX Crew-5 Commander Nicole Aunapu Mann from NASA is pictured during a Crew Dragon cockpit training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX
jsc2022e068661 (April 3, 2022) --- SpaceX Crew-5 Commander Nicole Aunapu Mann of NASA is pictured during a Crew Dragon cockpit training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX
jsc2022e068609 (June 13, 2022) --- SpaceX Crew-5 Commander Nicole Aunapu Mann from NASA is pictured during a Crew Dragon cockpit training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX
jsc2022e068602 (June 13, 2022) --- SpaceX Crew-5 Commander Nicole Aunapu Mann from NASA is pictured during a Crew Dragon cockpit training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX
jsc2022e068612 (June 13, 2022) --- SpaceX Crew-5 Commander Nicole Aunapu Mann from NASA poses for a portrait in her Crew Dragon flight suit at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX
jsc2022e068606 (June 13, 2022) --- SpaceX Crew-5 Commander Nicole Aunapu Mann from NASA is pictured during a Crew Dragon cockpit training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX
jsc2022e068597 (Aug. 19, 2022) --- Astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, SpaceX Crew-5 Commander, poses for a portrait in her pressure suit at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX
jsc2022e068613 (June 13, 2022) --- SpaceX Crew-5 Commander Nicole Aunapu Mann from NASA poses for a portrait in her Crew Dragon flight suit at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX
jsc2022e068608 (June 13, 2022) --- SpaceX Crew-5 Commander Nicole Aunapu Mann from NASA is pictured during a Crew Dragon cockpit training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX
jsc2022e068660 (April 3, 2022) --- SpaceX Crew-5 Commander Nicole Aunapu Mann of NASA is pictured during a Crew Dragon cockpit training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX
jsc2022e068605 (June 13, 2022) --- SpaceX Crew-5 Commander Nicole Aunapu Mann from NASA is pictured during a Crew Dragon cockpit training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX
jsc2022e068610 (June 13, 2022) --- SpaceX Crew-5 Commander Nicole Aunapu Mann from NASA is pictured during a Crew Dragon cockpit training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX
NASA Astronaut Joe Acaba, center, moderates a panel discussion with NASA's 2013 astronaut candidates, from left, Christina M. Hammock, Andrew R. Morgan, Victor J. Glover, Jessica U. Meir, Tyler N. "Nick" Hague, Josh A. Cassada, Anne C. McClain, and, Nicole Aunapu Mann, at the annual White House State of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (SoSTEM) address, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Dr. John P. Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, center, poses for a group photograph with NASA's 2013 astronaut candidates, from left, Josh A. Cassada, Nicole Aunapu Mann, Jessica U. Meir, Tyler N. "Nick" Hague, Holdren, Victor J. Glover, Christina M. Hammock, Andrew R. Morgan, and, Anne C. McClain at the annual White House State of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (SoSTEM) address, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA Astronaut Joe Acaba, center, moderates a panel discussion with NASA's 2013 astronaut candidates, from left, Christina M. Hammock, Andrew R. Morgan, Victor J. Glover, Jessica U. Meir, Tyler N. "Nick" Hague, Josh A. Cassada, Anne C. McClain, and, Nicole Aunapu Mann, at the annual White House State of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (SoSTEM) address, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA Astronaut Joe Acaba, center, moderates a panel discussion with NASA's 2013 astronaut candidates, from left, Christina M. Hammock, Andrew R. Morgan, Victor J. Glover, Jessica U. Meir, Tyler N. "Nick" Hague, Josh A. Cassada, Anne C. McClain, and, Nicole Aunapu Mann, at the annual White House State of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (SoSTEM) address, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
A student ask a question to NASA Astronaut Joe Acaba, center, and NASA's 2013 astronaut candidates, from left, Christina M. Hammock, Andrew R. Morgan, Victor J. Glover, Jessica U. Meir, Tyler N. "Nick" Hague, Josh A. Cassada, Anne C. McClain, and, Nicole Aunapu Mann, at the annual White House State of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (SoSTEM) address, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
jsc2022e068611 (June 13, 2022) --- A patch representing the country of the United States, with the name of SpaceX Crew-5 Commander Nicole Aunapu Mann from NASA beneath, is pictured attached to her Crew Dragon flight suit. Credit: SpaceX
NASA astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann is seated inside the crew suit-up room in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a countdown dress rehearsal on Oct. 2, 2022. Mann, along with NASA astronaut Josh Cassada, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata will launch to the International Space Station on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft is targeted for noon EDT on Oct. 5, 2022, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.
NASA astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann adds her signature to a wall inside the Astronaut Crew Quarters in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 4, 2022. Mann, along with NASA astronaut Josh Cassada, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata will launch to the International Space Station on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft is targeted for noon EDT on Oct. 5, 2022, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.
jsc2022e068665 (July 20, 2022) --- The four members of the SpaceX Crew-5 mission pose for a collage portrait in their Crew Dragon flight suits during a cockpit training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Clockwise from top left are, Commander Nicole Aunapu Mann and Pilot Josh Cassada, both from NASA; Mission Specialist Anna Kikina from Roscosmos; and Mission Specialist Koichi Wakata from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Credit: SpaceX
Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson is seen during a NASA event where it was announced that he, NASA astronaut Eric Boe, and NASA astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann are assigned to the Boeing CST-100 Starliner Crew Test Flight to the International Space Station, Friday, Aug. 3, 2018 at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Astronauts assigned to crew the first flight tests and missions of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon where announced during the event. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
jsc2022e068666 (July 20, 2022) --- The four members of the SpaceX Crew-5 mission pose for a collage portrait in their Crew Dragon flight suits during a cockpit training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Clockwise from top left are, Commander Nicole Aunapu Mann and Pilot Josh Cassada, both from NASA; Mission Specialist Anna Kikina from Roscosmos; and Mission Specialist Koichi Wakata from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Credit: SpaceX
NASA astronaut Eric Boe is seen during a NASA event where it was announced that he, Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson, and NASA astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann are assigned to the Boeing CST-100 Starliner Crew Test Flight to the International Space Station, Friday, Aug. 3, 2018 at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Astronauts assigned to crew the first flight tests and missions of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon where announced during the event. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson poses for a photograph as he exits the Boeing Mockup Trainer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on Aug. 2, 2018 ahead of the commercial crew flight assignments announcement Aug. 3. Ferguson, along with NASA astronauts Eric Boe and Nicole Aunapu Mann were assigned to launch aboard Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner on the company’s Crew Flight Test targeted for mid-2019 in partnership with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
jsc2022e068601 (Aug. 13, 2022) --- The four members of the SpaceX Crew-5 mission pose for a portrait in their Crew Dragon flight suits at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. From left are, Mission Specialist Anna Kikina from Roscosmos; Pilot Josh Cassada and Commander Nicole Aunapu Mann, both from NASA; and Mission Specialist Koichi Wakata from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Credit: SpaceX
jsc2022e068667 (July 7, 2022) --- The four members of the SpaceX Crew-5 mission pose for a collage portrait in their Crew Dragon flight suits at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Clockwise from top left are, Commander Nicole Aunapu Mann and Pilot Josh Cassada, both from NASA; Mission Specialist Anna Kikina from Roscosmos; and Mission Specialist Koichi Wakata from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Credit: SpaceX
NASA astronaut Eric Boe poses for a photograph as he exits the Boeing Mockup Trainer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on Aug. 2, 2018 ahead of the commercial crew flight assignments announcement Aug. 3. Boe, along with NASA astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann and Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson were assigned to launch aboard Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner on the company’s Crew Flight Test targeted for mid-2019 in partnership with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina is seated inside the crew suit-up room in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a countdown dress rehearsal on Oct. 2, 2022. Kikina, along with NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Aunapu Mann, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata will launch to the International Space Station on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft is targeted for noon EDT on Oct. 5, 2022, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.
Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina adds her signature to a wall inside the Astronaut Crew Quarters in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 4, 2022. Kikina, along with NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Aunapu Mann, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata, will launch to the International Space Station on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft is targeted for noon EDT on Oct. 5, 2022, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.
JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata adds his signature to a wall inside the Astronaut Crew Quarters in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 4, 2022. Wakata, along with NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Aunapu Mann, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, will launch to the International Space Station on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft is targeted for noon EDT on Oct. 5, 2022, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.
JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata is seated inside the crew suit-up room in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a countdown dress rehearsal on Oct. 2, 2022. Wakata, along with NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Aunapu Mann, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, will launch to the International Space Station on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft is targeted for noon EDT on Oct. 5, 2022, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.
NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) employees are photographed in front of Kennedy Space Center’s iconic countdown clock at the Press Site after the Crew-5 flag was raised on Oct. 3, 2022, in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission will carry NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Aunapu Mann, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) to the International Space Station for a science expedition mission as part of the agency’s CCP. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft are scheduled to lift off from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A at noon EDT on Oct. 5, 2022.
NASA astronaut Josh Cassada adds his signature to a wall inside the Astronaut Crew Quarters in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 4, 2022. Cassada, along with NASA astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata will launch to the International Space Station on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft is targeted for noon EDT on Oct. 5, 2022, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts participate in a countdown dress rehearsal at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 2, 2022, to prepare for the upcoming Crew-5 launch. In their SpaceX spacesuits are, from left, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata, NASA astronauts Nicole Aunapu Mann and Josh Cassada, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina. The crew will launch to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft for a science expedition mission as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is targeted for noon EDT on Oct. 5, 2022, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts are photographed in the Astronaut Crew Quarters in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 4, 2022. From left are NASA astronaut Josh Cassada, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, NASA astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata. The crew will launch to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft for a science expedition mission as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is targeted for noon EDT on Oct. 5, 2022, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.
NASA astronaut Josh Cassada is photographed in his SpaceX spacesuit inside the crew suit-up room in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a countdown dress rehearsal on Oct. 2, 2022. Cassada, along with NASA astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata will launch to the International Space Station on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft is targeted for noon EDT on Oct. 5, 2022, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.
NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) employees are photographed in front of Kennedy Space Center’s iconic countdown clock at the Press Site after the Crew-5 flag was raised on Oct. 3, 2022, in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission will carry NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Aunapu Mann, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) to the International Space Station for a science expedition mission as part of the agency’s CCP. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft are scheduled to lift off from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A at noon EDT on Oct. 5, 2022.
NASA astronaut Nicole Mann poses for a photograph as she exits the Boeing Mockup Trainer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on Aug. 2, 2018 ahead of the commercial crew flight assignments announcement Aug. 3. Mann, along with NASA astronaut Eric Boe and Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson were assigned to launch aboard Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner on the company’s Crew Flight Test targeted for mid-2019 in partnership with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Seen here is a close-up view of stickers for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3, Crew-4, and Crew-5 missions that were placed on one of the Tesla Model X cars that carry astronauts from the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building to Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts participated in a countdown dress rehearsal on Oct. 2, 2022, in preparation for the upcoming Crew-5 launch. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft will carry NASA astronauts Nicole Aunapu Mann and Josh Cassada, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata to the International Space Station for a science expedition mission as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is targeted for noon EDT on Oct. 5, 2022, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts walk out of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a countdown dress rehearsal on Oct. 2, 2022, to prepare for the upcoming Crew-5 launch. In front are NASA astronauts Josh Cassada (left) and Nicole Aunapu Mann, and behind them are Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina (left) and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata. The crew will launch to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft for a science expedition mission as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is targeted for noon EDT on Oct. 5, 2022, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.
NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) employees Tyrell Hawkins (right) and Henry May (second from right) raise the Crew-5 flag near the countdown clock at the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 3, 2022. Next to May is his wife, and to the left is CCP Manager Steve Stich. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission will carry NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Aunapu Mann, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) to the International Space Station for a science expedition mission as part of the agency’s CCP. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft are scheduled to lift off from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A at noon EDT on Oct. 5, 2022.
The Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission arrives at the hangar at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida on Sept. 23, 2022. The capsule arrived at the launch complex after making the short journey from its nearby processing facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. NASA astronauts Nicole Aunapu Mann, commander; Josh Cassada, pilot; and mission specialists Koichi Wakata, of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina will lift off aboard Endurance – on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket – from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy. Liftoff is targeted for no earlier than 12:46 p.m. EDT Monday, Oct. 3.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts walk out of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a countdown dress rehearsal on Oct. 2, 2022, to prepare for the upcoming Crew-5 launch. From left are Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Aunapu Mann, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata. The crew will launch to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft for a science expedition mission as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is targeted for noon EDT on Oct. 5, 2022, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.
The Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission arrives at the hangar at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida on Sept. 23, 2022. The capsule arrived at the launch complex after making the short journey from its nearby processing facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. NASA astronauts Nicole Aunapu Mann, commander; Josh Cassada, pilot; and mission specialists Koichi Wakata, of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina will lift off aboard Endurance – on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket – from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy. Liftoff is targeted for no earlier than 12:46 p.m. EDT Monday, Oct. 3.
Seen here are all the mission stickers for crewed launches under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) that were placed on one of the Tesla Model X cars that carry astronauts from the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building to Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts participated in a countdown dress rehearsal on Oct. 2, 2022, in preparation for the upcoming Crew-5 launch. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft will carry NASA astronauts Nicole Aunapu Mann and Josh Cassada, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata to the International Space Station for a science expedition mission as part of the agency’s CCP. Liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is targeted for noon EDT on Oct. 5, 2022, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.
The Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission arrives at the hangar at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida on Sept. 23, 2022. The capsule arrived at the launch complex after making the short journey from its nearby processing facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. NASA astronauts Nicole Aunapu Mann, commander; Josh Cassada, pilot; and mission specialists Koichi Wakata, of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina will lift off aboard Endurance – on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket – from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy. Liftoff is targeted for no earlier than 12:46 p.m. EDT Monday, Oct. 3.
JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata (right) adds NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission sticker to a wall inside the Astronaut Crew Quarters in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 4, 2022. From left are NASA astronaut Josh Cassada, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, and NASA astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann. The crew will launch to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft for a science expedition mission as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is targeted for noon EDT on Oct. 5, 2022, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.
NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) employees Tyrell Hawkins (right) and Henry May (second from right) raise the Crew-5 flag near the countdown clock at the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 3, 2022. Next to May is his wife, and to the left is CCP Manager Steve Stich. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission will carry NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Aunapu Mann, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) to the International Space Station for a science expedition mission as part of the agency’s CCP. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft are scheduled to lift off from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A at noon EDT on Oct. 5, 2022.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts participate in a countdown dress rehearsal at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 2, 2022, to prepare for the upcoming Crew-5 launch. In their SpaceX spacesuits inside the crew suit-up room in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building are, from left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Aunapu Mann, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata. The crew will launch to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft for a science expedition mission as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A at noon EDT on Oct. 5, 2022.
NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) employees Tyrell Hawkins (left) and Henry May (right) raise the Crew-5 flag near the countdown clock at the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 3, 2022. In the center is CCP Manager Steve Stich. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission will carry NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Aunapu Mann, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) to the International Space Station for a science expedition mission as part of the agency’s CCP. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft are scheduled to lift off from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A at noon EDT on Oct. 5, 2022.
NASA astronauts Eric Boe, foreground left, and Nicole Mann, foreground right, along with Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson, background, pose for a photograph inside the Boeing Mockup Trainer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on Aug. 2, 2018 ahead of the commercial crew flight assignments announcement Aug. 3. The three were assigned to launch aboard Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner on the company’s Crew Flight Test targeted for mid-2019 in partnership with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA personnel watch as a wreath is laid at the Tomb of the Unknowns by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden as part of NASA's Day of Remembrance, Friday, Jan. 31, 2014, at Arlington National Cemetery. The wreaths were laid in memory of those men and women who lost their lives in the quest for space exploration. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Nine U.S. astronauts selected for commercial crew flight assignments are directed for a group photograph by NASA photographer Robert Markowitz on Aug. 2, 2018 ahead of the announcement Aug. 3, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. From left NASA astronauts Suni Williams, Josh Cassada, Eric Boe, Nicole Mann, Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson, NASA astronauts Doug Hurley, Bob Behnken, Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover were assigned to the first test flights and operational missions for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA personnel and members of the public watch as a wreath is laid at the Tomb of the Unknowns by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden as part of NASA's Day of Remembrance, Friday, Jan. 31, 2014, at Arlington National Cemetery. The wreaths were laid in memory of those men and women who lost their lives in the quest for space exploration. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)