After a 26-hour voyage, NASA-Crew-6 SpaceX's members touched down safely at the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday. Friday morning saw the arrival of the Endeavor SpaceX Dragon carrying NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoberg, UAE astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedayev.
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Entry into the station was delayed by an hour due to a problem with the probe's docking hook sensor. JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), NASA astronauts Frank Rubio, Nicole Mann, Josh Casada (Expedition 68 crew), and Roscosmos astronauts Sergey Prokopyev, Annatri Pechtelin, and Dmitri Pechtelin welcomed the new four to the station. Up until Crew-5's return to Earth, there will be 11 crew members on the space station.
Reaching the International Space Station, a laboratory in orbit 420 kilometers above the Earth, was projected to take around 25 hours.
Welcome to @Space_Station, Crew 6! @Commercial_Crew Program missions are essential so we can continue to maximize the important research possible only in the space station’s unique microgravity environment. Look forward to amazing science results. Enjoy your stay aboard station! pic.twitter.com/ge5Duh0ZCm
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Unfortunately, certain technical difficulties caused a one-hour delay. The second space mission for the UAE is Sultan Al Neyadi's voyage. UAE Space Mission 2 intends to conduct research for six months. As part of the UAE Astronaut project, experiments will also be a part of it.
The UAE Astronaut initiative intends to develop the UAE's space exploration infrastructure. More than 200 scientific experiments will be carried out on the space station as part of the new mission. Twenty of them will follow Al Neyadi.