Crew-7 during launch rehearsal

Crew-7 going to their launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, as they getting ready for their launch to the International Space Station. 

From left: Crew-7 consists of Konstantin Borisov from Roscomos, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, taking the role of Dragon spacecraft pilot, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli and commander, with Satoshi Furukawa from JAXA. 

Andreas and Crew-7 were launched in the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft Endurance, from Launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. This launch pad is used for all crewed flights of SpaceX to the International Space Station, and it was previously used for the Shuttle and Apollo missions.  

As pilot of  Andreas will be the pilot of Crew-7, where he will take one of the two middle seats next to commander Jasmin Moghbeli and monitor the Dragon’s systems and performance during the journey to the International Space Station.  

More information on the crew: ESA - Introducing Crew-7!

You can follow Andreas and his Huginn mission on the Huginn mission page, on Andreas’s social media channels and ESA’s social media.