He completed undergraduate studies and received a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering from Imperial College London in England before gaining his doctorate in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Aboard the station, he will serve as an Expedition 69/70 flight engineer. As the pilot on Crew-7, he will be responsible for spacecraft systems and performance. Mogensen was selected as an ESA astronaut in 2009 and became the first Danish citizen in space after launching aboard a Soyuz for a 10-day mission to the space station in 2015. She will serve as an Expedition 69/70 flight engineer aboard the station.

As mission commander, she will be responsible for all phases of flight, from launch to re-entry. Naval Test Pilot School in Patuxent River, Md. Moghbeli, a helicopter and Marine Corps test pilot, has more than 150 combat missions and 2,000 hours of flight time in over 25 different aircraft. The New York native earned a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering with information technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a master of science in aerospace engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. This will be Moghbeli’s first trip into space after being selected as a NASA astronaut in 2017. The integrated spacecraft and rocket will then be rolled to the pad and raised to vertical for a dry dress rehearsal with the crew and an integrated static fire test prior to launch. Once all rocket and spacecraft system checkouts are complete and all components are certified for flight, teams will mate Dragon to the Falcon 9 rocket in SpaceX’s hangar at the launch site. The international crew will fly aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, named Endurance, which previously flew NASA’s Crew-3 and Crew-5 missions.Īs teams progress through Dragon milestones for Crew-7, they also are preparing a first-flight Falcon 9 booster for the mission. The flight is the seventh crew rotation mission with SpaceX to station, and the eighth human spaceflight as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Konstantin Borisov of Roscosmos will lift off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Fla., to perform research technology demonstrations, and maintenance activities aboard the microgravity laboratory. A new cadre of four crew members is preparing to launch to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission.

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