NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 crew members Jasmin Moghbeli, Andreas Mogensen, Satoshi Furukawa, and Konstantin Borisov play a traditional card game on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023, inside the suit-up room in the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Next, they will get into the customized Tesla Model X vehicles that will transport them to Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A. SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, powered by the company’s Falcon 9 rocket, will carry the four-person crew to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Crew-7 is scheduled to launch at 3:27 a.m. EDT.
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