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On August 26, SpaceX's Endurance spacecraft carrying a group of four astronauts from Japan, Denmark, Russia and the United States entered orbit to reach the International Space Station (ISS).
The Endurance spacecraft was launched on a Falcon 9 rocket at 3:27 a.m. on August 26 (US time) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft is expected to dock with the ISS on August 27.
The mission, named Crew-7, will include astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli of NASA; Andreas Mogensen of Denmark, of the European Space Agency; Satoshi Furukawa of Japan, and Konstantin Borisov of Russia.
The group of astronauts will participate in a six-month microgravity research program, which will include collecting space samples for study. They will also conduct experiments to assess the physiological differences between sleep on Earth and in space.
Crew-7 is the seventh rotating crew to the ISS since 2020, when NASA astronauts were first brought to the space station.
