NASA reveals the astronauts who will fly on SpaceX’s second operational Crew Dragon spacecraft mission

NASA reveals the astronauts who will fly on SpaceX’s second operational Crew Dragon spacecraft mission

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https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/28/nasa-reveals-the-astronauts-who-will-fly-on-spacexs-second-operational-crew-dragon-spacecraft-mission/

NASA and SpaceX are looking to finish up the final demonstration mission of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon astronaut spacecraft at the end of this week, but it’s already looking ahead to Crew-2 – the second operational flight of Crew Dragon, currently set for sometime next spring. The agency revealed the four people that will fly aboard that launch, including two NASA astronauts, as well as one from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and one from the European Space Agency (ESA).

NASA astronauts Megan McCarthur and Shane Kimbrough will join JAXA’s Akihiko Hoshide and ESA’s Thomas Pesquet on that flight, which will follow Crew-1 currently scheduled for sometime in late September after Demo-2 concludes. This is a regular mission, meaning the crew will be staffing the International Space Station for an extended period – six months for this stretch, sharing the orbital research platform with three astronauts who will be using a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to make the trip.