Neyadi, 41, is the fourth astronaut from an Arab country and the second from the oil-rich UAE to journey to space.įedyaev is the second Russian cosmonaut to fly to the ISS aboard a SpaceX rocket. The mission was the first space flight for Neyadi, Hoburg and Fedyaev. The crew will spend six months on the station, where they will conduct more than 200 science experiments and technology demonstrations, according to SpaceX. NASA's Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, Russia's Andrey Fedyaev and Sultan al-Neyadi of the United Arab Emirates entered the station about two hours later, the livestream showed.Ī SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the spacecraft had blasted off to the station on Thursday after the launch was scrubbed just minutes before liftoff earlier in the week. The SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft arrived at the orbiting station at 0640 GMT on Friday, the US space agency said in a statement. SpaceX Dragon crew enter International Space Stationįour astronauts entered the International Space Station on Friday after their SpaceX Dragon Crew-6 mission successfully docked, a NASA livestream showed.
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