Home Stretch: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Mission Nears Completion of Crew Training



The unique 18-month training regimen that has been designed for the crew members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission to get them ready for their research expedition trip to the International Space Station is about to come to an end.

The NASA SpaceX Crew-5 crew is made up of NASA astronauts Nicole Mann, the mission specialist, Josh Cassada, the pilot, Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Anna Kikina of Roscosmos. They will launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida's Launch Complex 39A on SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, which will be propelled by the company's Falcon 9 rocket. Currently, September 29 is the earliest date for liftoff. As part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, this is SpaceX's human space transportation system's fifth crew rotation trip and sixth voyage to the space station with humans.

At the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, the crew has received training tailored to their mission. Additionally, they have visited foreign partner agencies for system and payload training as well as SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, for spacecraft training.

According to Cassie Rodriquez, Crew-5 chief training officer at Johnson Space Center, "we really focus on what they're going to need to complete the space station mission." That's particular to the systems they'll use and the jobs they'll be carrying out, so.

The crew has studied extravehicular exercises, Russian language, robotics, piloting a T-38 aircraft, spacesuit training, spaceship training, and physical, tool, and scientific training in addition to space station systems. The astronauts get the chance to practice crew resource management, where they are exposed to emergency scenarios and learn how to react and assume certain duties.

In order to teach them how to live and work with others in extremely stressful and hazardous conditions, we put them through scenarios, according to Rodriquez. They have demonstrated leadership, tenacity, and concentration in whatever they do. It's incredibly motivating to see how committed everyone is to human spaceflight and making the mission successful.

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