Elizabeth's reporting includes multiple exclusives with the White House and Office of the Vice-President of the United States, an exclusive conversation with aspiring space tourist (and NSYNC bassist) Lance Bass, speaking several times with the International Space Station, witnessing five human spaceflight launches on two continents, working inside a spacesuit, and participating in a simulated Mars mission. She was contributing writer for for 10 years before joining full-time, freelancing since 2012. Įlizabeth Howell (she/her), Ph.D., is a staff writer in the spaceflight channel since 2022 covering diversity, education and gaming as well. The current forecast for MS-22's landing is in late September.Įlizabeth Howell is the co-author of " Why Am I Taller ?" (ECW Press, 2022 with Canadian astronaut Dave Williams), a book about space medicine. The Soyuz MS-22 crew will also see their time in space doubled to a year in orbit as they await the launch of a crewed Soyuz later in 2023 to relieve their duties on the ISS. The other crewmates are NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. The empty Soyuz vehicle, known as MS-23, will launch during a stretch that NASA associate administrator Kathy Lueders called "one of the busiest increments in the history of station" during Wednesday's press conference.Īmong the many scheduled crewed launches to the ISS in the first half of 2022 are Crew Flight Test, the first astronaut mission for Boeing's Starliner capsule SpaceX's Crew-6 and Ax-2, the second crewed mission to the orbiting lab by private company Axiom Space.Ĭrew-6 will see the Dragon Endeavour fly the first United Arab Emirates astronaut on a long-duration mission (Sultan Al Neyadi). ![]() 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. The next crewed launch to the International Space Station will be Crew-6, a NASA rotation mission flown in a SpaceX spacecraft. "We were able to put the straps over Frank and then the seat liner, if we needed to, and then secure him to the floor of the Dragon," he added. ![]() "We looked at taking some cargo straps from, actually, the CRS-26 vehicle," Stich said, referring to a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule that's docked to the ISS right now. But Endurance was outfitted with just four seats, and securing Rubio as an unexpected fifth crewmember required clever repurposing of supplies in orbit. SpaceX originally designed the Crew Dragon vehicle to carry as many as seven people. NASA considered numerous safety questions before approving Rubio's seat liner for a move from Soyuz MS-22 to Endurance, agency officials said Wednesday, including making sure there was enough oxygen in the SpaceX craft, that carbon dioxide could be minimized and that landing would happen safely. The third crewmember, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, would join the four Crew-5 astronauts on Endurance in a "lifeboat" scenario. The two who would make that trip on MS-22 are cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin. The ride back to Earth would be warm with no coolant, however. Roscosmos officials say that the damaged Soyuz MS-22 could accommodate two of its three crewmembers if an emergency necessitated the evacuation of the ISS. In a pinch, a fifth astronaut could be put on Endurance for return to Earth, NASA has said. ![]() 5, 2022, which brought the spacecraft Endurance to the International Space Station with four crewmembers.
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