A pair of news conferences on Thursday, Aug. 4, at NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston will highlight the agencys SpaceX Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station. The mission is NASAs fifth crew rotation flight involving a U.S. commercial spacecraft carrying crew for a science expedition aboard the microgravity laboratory.
The agency will host a mission overview news conference at 12:30 p.m. EDT and a crew news conference at 2 p.m. Both will air live on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agencys website. The crew also will be available for individual interviews after 3 p.m.
The Crew-5 mission will carry NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada as well as JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina. The Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon Endurance spacecraft is scheduled to launch no earlier than Sept. 29 from Launch Complex 39A at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
