4 astronauts from 4 totally different international locations can be on board the seventh operational mission by SpaceX for NASA, which is scheduled to launch later this month.
Crew-7 is scheduled to launch towards the Worldwide House Station (ISS) no sooner than Aug. 25 utilizing the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft, atop a Falcon 9 rocket from the identical firm.
The worldwide crew contains NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, Andreas Mogensen of the European House Company (ESA), Japan’s Satoshi Furukawa and Russian cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov.
You may study extra about every of them beneath.
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Jasmin Moghbeli (NASA)
Jasmin Moghbeli, Crew-7 commander, is a 40-year-old lieutenant-colonel within the U.S. Marine Corps who joined NASA as an astronaut candidate in 2017. Moghbeli would be the second Iranian-American in area after Anousheh Ansari, the primary feminine area vacationer, who flew to the ISS in 2006. Crew-7, after which making certain ISS Expedition 70/71, can be Moghbeli’s first area mission.
Moghbeli’s biography from NASA states that she was born in Dangerous Nauheim, Germany, however calls Baldwin, New York her hometown. Moghbeli has a bachelor of science diploma in aerospace engineering (with data know-how) from the Massachusetts Institute of Know-how, together with a grasp of science in aerospace engineering from the Naval Postgraduate Faculty.
Moghbeli was a Marine Corps check pilot when she joined NASA, with greater than 150 fight missions and a couple of,000 hours of flight time in 25 plane varieties. After ending primary coaching at NASA, Moghbeli targeted on supporting the Artemis moon program’s human touchdown system growth previous to being assigned to Crew-7.
Andreas Mogensen (Denmark)
Andreas Mogensen, Crew-7 pilot, is a 47-year-old ESA astronaut who in 2015 grew to become the primary particular person from Denmark to succeed in area. Mogensen was beforehand a analysis fellow on the College of Surrey in the UK, learning issues corresponding to spacecraft steering and lunar mission landings, when he was chosen as an astronaut candidate in 2009. Crew-7 and ISS Expedition 70/71 can be his second area mission.
Mogensen was born in Copenhagen, his official biography states. He has a masters diploma in aeronautical engineering from Imperial School London and a doctoral diploma in aerospace engineering on the College of Texas at Austin. His profession has included working as a drilling providers engineer within the Republic of Congo and in Angola, designing management methods for wind generators, and dealing as an perspective and management methods engineer on ESA’s Swarm mission, which studied Earth’s magnetic discipline.
Mogensen’s first mission in area was a 10-day tour in 2015, launching and touchdown aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. His many floor duties have included engineering for an ESA lunar lander mission and serving as European astronaut liaison officer at NASA’s Johnson House Heart in Houston. Mogensen additionally carried out underground expedition coaching for the European CAVES (Cooperative Journey for Valuing and Exercising) program in 2012 and went underwater throughout a NASA Excessive Setting Mission Operations (NEEMO) mission.
Satoshi Furukawa (Japan)
Satoshi Furukawa, Crew-7 mission specialist, is a 59-year-old medical physician and astronaut with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Company (JAXA). He beforehand flew to the ISS for 165 days in 2011 with Expeditions 28 and 29. Crew-7 and Expedition 70/71 can be his second area mission.
Born in Yokohama, Furukawa acquired physician of drugs and physician of philosophy in medical science levels from the College of Tokyo. He carried out medical drugs and analysis into gastrointestinal surgical procedure on the College of Tokyo Hospital and associated hospitals earlier than being chosen as an astronaut candidate in 1999, in keeping with his official biography.
Furukawa’s many years of floor expertise embrace supporting the event of the Japanese Kibo ISS module and main JAXA’s area biomedical analysis group. He additionally participated within the NEEMO 13 mission on the underwater Aquarius habitat, in 2007.
Konstantin Borisov (Russia)
Konstantin Borisov, Crew-7 mission specialist, labored at Volvo Vostok as an analyst, advisor, venture supervisor and head of division for 13 years earlier than becoming a member of Roscosmos as a cosmonaut candidate in 2018. Crew-7 and Expeditions 70/71 is his first spaceflight.
Born in Smolensk, the 39-year-old Borisov holds a bachelor of economics from the Russian Academy of Economics, a masters diploma in operations analysis and methods evaluation from the College of Warwick within the U.Okay., and a grasp of science from the Moscow Aviation Institute, in keeping with his official Russian-language biography (translated into English by Google).
Borisov was appointed as a full cosmonaut in January 2021. As typical coaching for a long-duration mission in area takes about two to 2.5 years, about the identical size of time since Borisov was certified as a full cosmonaut, his biography doesn’t state different main floor duties except for required primary coaching that each one astronauts and cosmonauts undertake upon becoming a member of their respective businesses.
