We're on our way to the International Space Station! 🚀 NASA's SpaceX #Crew6 mission lifted off from NASAKennedy at 12:34 a.m. EST (0534 UTC) on Thursday, March 2, sending its four crew members into orbit aboard the Dragon Endeavour spacecraft. Mission pilot astro.woody, who's on his first mission to outer space, and the rest of Crew-6 will dock with the ISS early Friday morning (1:17 a.m. EST, 0617 UTC), joining the seven-member crew already aboard the orbiting laboratory. Over the next six months, they'll run hundreds of experiments to help humanity learn how to live in space while making life better back on Earth—including research into the human immune system and studies examining microbes that could survive in the harsh environment of outer space. Our Commercial Crew missions (like Crew-6) are also helping make spaceflight more reliable and less expensive, opening up access to outer space and preparing us for future missions to the Moon and Mars. Image description 1: In this ...