Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, mission specialist, is seated inside the crew suit-up room in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 5, 2022. Kikina, along with NASA astronauts Josh Cassada, pilot, and Nicole Mann, spacecraft commander, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata, mission specialist, will launch to the International Space Station on the agency’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon Endurance spacecraft lifted off at noon EDT from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.
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KSC-20221005-PH-KLS01_0256
Date Created
October 5, 2022
Center
KSC
Media Type
image
Photographer
NASA/Kim Shiflett
Location
O&C Building (Crew Quarters)
NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 Post-Launch News Conference
Oct 5, 2022