NASA Hosts Media Event for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-3 Mission

NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn speaks to members of the news media during crew arrival for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch and Landing Facility in Florida on Oct. 26, 2021. Marshburn, along with NASA astronauts Raja Chari, and Kayla Barron, and European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer arrived at the landing facility from Houston. The astronauts will launch aboard the Crew Dragon on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Oct. 31. Launch is targeted for 2:21 a.m. from Launch Complex 39A. Crew-3 is the third crew rotation flight for the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, and the first flight of a new Crew Dragon spacecraft.