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Official portrait of Crew-4 astronauts Bob Hines, Samantha Cristoforetti, Jessica Watkins and Kjell Lindgren.
The three NASA and one ESA astronaut are expected to be launched to the International Space Station on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft no earlier than 15 April 2022. This will be the second spaceflight for Samantha who first flew to the Space Station in 2015 for her Italian Space Agency ASI-sponsored mission Futura.
Once on the Space Station, they will serve as members of Expedition 67.