Crew-7 arrives at Kennedy Space Center

Crew-7 arriving at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in the week of 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 Launchpad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. This launchpad is used for all crewed flights of SpaceX to the International Space Station. It was previously used for the Shuttle and Apollo missions. Andreas will be the pilot of Crew-7, where he will take one of the two middle seats with commander Jasmin Moghbeli and monitor the Dragon’s systems and performance during the journey to the International Space Station.