{"id":229083,"date":"2021-04-17T00:08:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T21:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/spacexs-next-crew-arrives-in-florida-for-earth-day-launch\/"},"modified":"2021-04-17T00:08:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T21:08:51","slug":"spacexs-next-crew-arrives-in-florida-for-earth-day-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/spacexs-next-crew-arrives-in-florida-for-earth-day-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"#SpaceX’s next crew arrives in Florida for Earth Day launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n SpaceX Crew 2 member Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide waves after a news<\/a> conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, April 16, 2021 as he prepares for a mission to the International Space Station. The launch is targeted for April 22. (AP Photo\/John Raoux)
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SpaceX’s most international crew of astronauts yet arrived at their launch site Friday.<\/p>\n


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By coincidence, their flight to the International Space Station is set for next Thursday\u2014Earth Day. It’s a reminder of NASA’s core mission of studying the home planet, the space agency’s acting administrator Steve Jurczyk said as he welcomed the astronauts to Kennedy Space Center.<\/p>\n

The three men and one woman represent the U.S., France and Japan: NASA’s Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, Thomas Pesquet and Akihiko Hoshide, all experienced space fliers.<\/p>\n

“It’s definitely getting real,” Kimbrough, the spacecraft commander, said after arriving by plane from Houston.<\/p>\n

This will be SpaceX’s third launch of astronauts in less than a year, and the first to use a recycled Falcon rocket and Dragon crew capsule. NASA turned to U.S. private companies for crew transport after the space shuttle program ended in 2011.<\/p>\n

“Certainly, I think all of them, until we get several years under our belt, should be considered test flights,” Kimbrough told reporters.<\/p>\n

SpaceX uses the same kind of rocket and similar capsules for supply deliveries, and recycles those as well.<\/p>\n