NASA is in early-stage discussions with SpaceX to possibly modify its Crew Dragon spacecraft.
on Feb. 20 to bring the three MS-22 crewmembers back to Earth. That journey is expected to occur in September, about six months after the trio's original planned homecoming date.The discussions with SpaceX are in the early stages; the shield-boost idea was just raised Tuesday at a regularly scheduled commercial crew meeting, said Steve Stich, program manager for NASA's Commercial Crew Program.
"The Dragon systems are healthy and operating nominally," Walker said during Wednesday's press conference of Endurance, which launched to the orbiting lab this past October on SpaceX'sSpaceX's Crew-5 launch on Oct. 5, 2022, which brought the spacecraft Endurance to the International Space Station with four crewmembers. In a pinch, a fifth astronaut could be put on Endurance for return to Earth, NASA has said.
SpaceX originally designed the Crew Dragon vehicle to carry as many as seven people. But Endurance was outfitted with just four seats, and securing Rubio as an unexpected fifth crewmember required clever repurposing of supplies in orbit. The next crewed launch to the International Space Station will be Crew-6, a NASA rotation mission flown in a SpaceX spacecraft. From left are Russia's Andrey Fedyaev, NASA's Warren"Woody" Hoburg, NASA's Stephen Bowen, and the United Arab Emirates' Sultan Al Neyadi in front of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
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