NASA Hosts Administrator Media Briefing for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-3 Mission

Representatives from NASA will participate in a briefing at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021, in advance of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Participants include: Bill Nelson, NASA administrator; Bob Cabana, NASA associate administrator; Kathy Lueders, associate administrator, Space Operations Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters; Janet Petro, director, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center; and NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg. Launch is currently targeted for 2:21 a.m. EDT Sunday, Oct. 31. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, named Endurance by the Crew-3 astronauts, will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Crew-3 flight will carry NASA astronauts Raja Chari, mission commander, Tom Marshburn, pilot, and Kayla Barron, mission specialist and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer, also a mission specialist.