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NASA has selected astronauts for its fourth SpaceX Crew mission. The two members of the team will board the fourth crew flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft to travel to the International Space Station. The space agency has named American astronauts Kjell Lindgren and Bob Hines as team members of the SpaceX Crew-4 mission. Lindgren will be in command of a spaceship and Bob Hines will be piloting the mission. The astronaut duo are the main members. An additional team in naming mission experts will be selected in the coming months.
according to NASA, the mission is expected to launch in 2022. As previously employed in Crew missions, the Falcon 9 rocket will take the spacecraft from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The team, which includes Lindgren, Hines and other members of the international team, joins a mission team that is already aboard the space station and is about to stay there for a long time.
Astronauts Kjell Lindgren and Bob Hines have been selected to lead the SpaceX Crew-4 mission. Image: NASA
Lindgren has been in space before, having stayed at the space station for 141 days in 2015 for Expeditions 44 and 45. Hines, on the other hand, makes his first space trip as part of the fourth crew flight flight trip.
NASA has been part of the Commercial Crew Program where it will work with companies such as SpaceX to “develop and operate a new generation of spacecraft capable of orbiting astronauts on Earth and the space station. ”.
Earlier, NASA was on to name that the future Crew-2 mission departs for the International Space Station not earlier than April 20th. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur will serve as spacecraft commander and pilot for this second mission, and JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide along with ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will be mission experts.