NASA will conduct news conferences on July 25 at the Johnson Space Center in Houston to announce the upcoming crew rotations missions to the International Space Station (ISS).
The agency also announced that NASA Johnson will host a media day on July 24 to give preview on the arrival of the first U.S. asteroid sample collected from space.
The assigned project team will also be introduced afterwards in the OSIRIS-REx Sample Curation Laboratory.
NASA SpaceX Crew-7 Mission
According to NASA, the SpaceX Crew-7 Mission is targeted to launch by August 15, for a science mission aboard the microgravity laboratory.
The Crew-7 mission is comprised of NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Konstantin Borisov of Roscosmos.
For the seventh crew rotation, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft will launch from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Aside from the Crew-7 mission, NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara will also launch to the space station on September 15, set on a mission with Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub.
O'Hara will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
This will be O'Hara's first spaceflight after her selection as part of the 2017 NASA astronaut class and will join be joining the Expedition 69/10 as flight engineer in the ISS.
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