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Crew-5 launch and docking


SpaceX is set to launch the fifth crew rotation mission under the Commercial Crew Program with the Crew-5 Dragon spacecraft.

The crew includes NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata and Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina.

Kikina is expected to be the first cosmonaut to fly on a commercial U.S. spacecraft. She is part of a seat exchange deal that will see NASA astronaut Frank Rubio fly aboard Soyuz MS-22.

Crew-5 will use Crew Dragon Endurance and is expected to dock with forward port of the Harmony module about a day after launch.

Earlier Event: September 29
Start of Expedition 68
Later Event: October 14
Crew-4 undocking, splashdown