The sixth operational SpaceX space station mission will make historical past, bringing the primary United Arab Emirates long-duration astronaut to space.
Crew-6 will launch to the International Space Station (ISS) on Feb. 26 or so, with 4 astronauts on board a Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
United Arab Emirates astronaut and Crew-6 member Sultan Al-Neyadi would be the first of his nation to do a space station rotation, following the first-ever Emirati astronaut flight in 2019.
Additionally on board are NASA astronauts Warren “Woody” Hoburg and Stephen Bowen, and cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev of Russian space company Roscosmos. You’ll be able to be taught extra in regards to the crew beneath.
Associated: SpaceX Crew-6 astronauts gear up for Feb. 26 launch to space station
Sultan Al-Neyadi
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Sultan Al-Neyadi, 41, was one of many first two astronauts chosen with the United Arab Emirates in 2017. Previous to turning into an astronaut, he obtained a Ph.D. in Data Expertise, in accordance with his Worldwide Astronautical Federation biography (opens in new tab).
Al-Neyadi is the primary UAE astronaut to fly a standard half-year ISS rotation. He advised Area.com it’s a “pure development” following the eight-day space station tour flight by Hazzaa Ali Almansoori in 2019. The UAE is a signatory to the NASA-led Artemis Accords laying out guidelines for future human moon exploration in addition to group norms for peaceable work in space, he added.
“It is a matter of actively being a companion of future initiatives,” he mentioned throughout a Jan. 25 Zoom interview of the work with NASA. Al-Neyadi added that the UAE’s Rashid rover is anticipated to the touch down on the moon in April as one other step to helping with future exploration.
Stephen Bowen
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Stephen Bowen, 59, is commander of Crew-6 and a veteran astronaut of three space shuttle missions that helped assemble the ISS: STS-126, STS-132, and STS-133. He’s a retired captain with the U.S. Navy and in 2000 was the primary submarine officer chosen for astronaut candidate coaching by NASA. He was absolutely certified for spaceflight in 2002.
Bowen, who has not flown for 12 years, remains to be leaving the door open to becoming a member of moon missions with NASA’s Artemis program later within the 2020s. “We’ll have a dialogue with my household,” he advised Area.com in a Jan. 25 Zoom interview. “After I get again [from this mission] we’ll do an evaluation to see if I nonetheless have a job, and if that chance comes up sooner or later, we’ll see.”
Born in Cohasset, Massachusetts, he has spent greater than 40 days in space and has 47 hours and 18 minutes of extravehicular exercise throughout seven spacewalks. He holds a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from the USA Naval Academy, and a joint grasp of science in ocean engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Expertise and the Woods Gap Oceanographic Establishment Joint Program.
Bowen’s submariner expertise contains three years with USS Parche (SSN 683), qualification on USS Pogy (SSN 647), a tour of obligation on USS Augusta (SSN 710) because the engineering officer, and first govt officer of the pre-commissioning unit Virginia SSN 774. He additionally labored with the USA Particular Operations Command, and served as reactor and propulsion inspector for the Navy’s Submarine Board of Inspection and Survey.
Warren “Woody” Hoburg
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Warren “Woody” Hoburg, 37, is the pilot for Crew-6 and on his first space mission. He joined NASA throughout its 2017 astronaut candidate class and was absolutely licensed for flying in January 2020, in accordance with his NASA biography (opens in new tab).
“I am very excited that I get to fly to the ISS,” Hoburg advised Area.com throughout a Jan. 25 Zoom interview. “We’re in a time interval once I get to have that chance, and it is such a particular place, so I am glad I get to go there.”
Hoburg, born and raised in Pittsburgh, holds a bachelor diploma in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Expertise (MIT) and a doctorate in electrical engineering and laptop science from the College of California, Berkeley. Hoburg is also an instrument-rated industrial pilot for each single-engine and multi-engine airplanes.
When Hoburg was chosen by NASA, he was main a analysis group at MIT, the place he was an aeronautics and astronautics assistant professor. He additionally labored for Boeing Industrial Airplanes Product Improvement on software program for composite manufacturing processes. He additionally had served as a seasonal member of Yosemite Search and Rescue, and as an operations chief for the Bay Space Mountain Rescue Unit.
Andrey Fedyaev
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Andrey Fedyaev is ready to show 42 years outdated on his very first launch day, Feb. 26. The cosmonaut was born in Serov, Sverdlovsk, within the Ural Mountains, in accordance with his official biography (opens in new tab). (Translation supplied by Google.)
“I do not know what my household and associates are planning, however I might actually need to fly on my birthday, to launch on my birthday. It will be the perfect present for me,” Fedyaev advised Area.com throughout a Jan. 25 Zoom interview. (He spoke by way of a Russian interpreter.)
Fedyaev joined Roscosmos as a candidate cosmonaut in 2012 and was absolutely licensed for flight in 2014. In 2004, he obtained a level in air transport and air visitors management on the Krasnodar Navy Aviation Institute in southern Russia.
Fedyaev is a army pilot with 600 hours of expertise and in addition served as assistant commander of the Ilyushin II-38 ship Yelizovo close to the Kamchatka Peninsula. Kamchatka is north of Japan and located between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea.
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