Crew-14: Four Astronauts, Three Agencies, No Earlier Than Spring 2027
Four crew members from three space agencies will launch to the International Space Station no earlier than spring 2027 for a long-duration science expedition, NASA says, as part of the SpaceX Crew-14 mission. NASA calls it the 14th commercial crew rotation with SpaceX under its Low Earth Orbit Program.
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The lineup: NASA astronauts Kayla Barron as spacecraft commander and Chris Birch as pilot, with JAXA's Makoto Suwa and Roscosmos cosmonaut Arutyun Kiviryan as mission specialists.
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For Barron this is a second flight to the station; she was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2017.