🐉 We're getting ready to ride a Dragon into space! Crew-3, our fourth crewed mission with SpaceX to develop reliable, cost-effective commercial space travel, is scheduled to lift off early on Sunday, Oct. 31 (2:21 a.m. EDT/06:21 UTC) for six months of scientific study on the International Space Station (ISS). In this photo (left to right), astronauts ESAMatthiasMaurer, Tom Marshburn, Astro_Raja and Astro_Kayla take their seats inside SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft (named Endurance) on a training mission from earlier this month. Raja Chari and Kayla Barron are the first members of NASA's newest astronaut class (the "Turtles") to launch into orbit, continuing to bring space travel to the next generation of humanity; Germany's Matthias Maurer is the second EuropeanSpaceAgency astronaut (after Thom_Astro) to participate in a Commercial Crew mission. Next week is launch week, so stay tuned for more updates on Crew-3 and how we're expanding the boundaries of research and exploration! C...