The International Space Station will be launched by a Crew Dragon capsule in 2023. The image is from NASA.
The first two seats of the NASA crew mission have been filled.
According to a NASA statement published in December, astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg will fly on the Crew 6 mission in the year of 2023.
The statement said that Hoburg will be the pilot and that two mission specialists will be assigned to the station at a future date.
A photo tour of the International Space Station.
Crew 6 will be the first long-duration visit to the space station by a veteran of NASA's space shuttle fleet. He previously served as a submarine officer and conducted seven spacewalks.
Hoburg was selected for the first time in the year of 2017: He was an assistant professor at MIT who focused on engineering systems. He is one of 18 astronauts who will be chosen by NASA to be part of the Artemis 3 mission to return humans to the surface of the moon.
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