NASA sends new astronauts to International Space Station

NASA-SpaceX’s next batch of astronauts are enroute to the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday.

The Crew-8 mission lifted off at 10:53 p.m. EST Sunday (9.23 am, Monday IST) from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

It was earlier scheduled to fly on Sunday but was postponed due to unfavourable



conditions in the flight path of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft, NASA said.

The Crew-8 mission includes NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin. This will be the first space flight for Epps, Dominick and Grebyonkin and the third stint on the ISS for Barratt.