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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.
Crew-7 consists of ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, taking the role of Dragon spacecraft pilot, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli is commander, Satoshi Furukawa from JAXA and Konstantin Borisov from Roscomos are mission specialists.
Andreas and Crew-7 will launch in the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft Endurance, from lLaunch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. This is the launch pad is used for all crewed flights of SpaceX to the International Space Station, and. iIt was previously used for the Shuttle and Apollo missions.
As pilot of Andreas will be the pilot of Crew-7, where heAndreas will take one of the two middle seats with next to commander Jasmin Moghbeli and monitors 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.