SpaceX Crew-7 Flag Raising

Commercial Crew Deputy Program Manager Ven Feng raises the Crew-7 flag on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, near the countdown clock at the Press Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the background are other Commercial Crew Program employees. NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov will launch to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff is targeted for 3:49 a.m. EDT Friday, Aug. 25, 2023, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A. Crew-7 marks the first spaceflight for Moghbeli and Borisov, and the second for Mogensen and Furukawa.