SpaceX Dragon, Carrying UAE Astronaut Docks with International Space Station After Technical Problem

Sat Mar 04 2023
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DUBAI:  Space X Crew 6 met a software issue minutes before docking with the International Space Station (ISS), NASA said on Friday. SpaceX Crew 6 mission docked at the International Space Station about 24 hours since its launch.

SpaceX Dragon

On board Crew 6 is UAE’s astronaut Sultan Al-Neyadi who is the 2nd Arab to carry out lengthy space mission. NASA’s Stephen Bowen , Warren Hoburg, and Russia’s Andrey Fedyaev all boarded the station for two hours after docking, media reported.

SpaceX said that the crew would spend 6 months on the ISS, where they will carry out over 200 science experiments. The mission was the first space flight for Hoburg, Neyadi, and Fedyaev.

Neyadi is the fourth cosmonaut from a gulf country and the 2nd from the UAE to journey to space.

NASA astronauts fly often to the station on Russia’s Soyuz craft. The Crew-6, named Endeavour, lifted off on Thursday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan bin Salman was the 1st Arab in space, launching aboard a shuttle discovery in 1985. Prince Sultan bin Salman was followed two years later by a Syrian astronaut Muhammed Faris, launched by Russia. Both were in space for a week.

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