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SPACEX CREW 3 MISSION INTRODUCTION • For a possible SpaceX commercial crew mission to the International Space Station, NASA has chosen three astronauts because it leaves open the prospect of sharing seats with Russia Source: www.tesmanian.com SpaceX Crew-3 mission • NASA and the European Space Agency jointly announced on Dec. 14 that they had allocated the SpaceX Crew-3 mission to NASA astronauts Raja Chari and Tom Marshburn and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer. • It is expected to begin this commercial crew mission in the fall of 2021. Source: spacenews.com Indian-American Raja Chari To Be on SpaceX’s Crew-3 Mission • Chari, who will serve as the mission commander, joined the astronaut corps and will be making his first spaceflight. • He is also part of NASA's announced Dec. 9 'Artemis Squad' of astronauts who are trained for future Artemis lunar missions. Source: nripulse.com Who else are part of the mission? • A NASA astronaut since 2004, Marshburn flew in 2009 on the STS-127 shuttle flight and spent almost five months on the ISS in 2012 and 2013. • Maurer will make his first spaceflight, joining the ESA astronaut corps in 2015. Source: spacenews.com One Spot Left • For this mission, the agencies have not announced who will hold the fourth seat on the Crew Dragon spacecraft. • Subsequent to a review by NASA and its international partners, a fourth crew member will be added at a later date. Source: spacenews.com Crew 1 & Crew 2 Mission • NASA, ESA and Japanese space agency JAXA astronauts have been assigned to commercial crew flights so far. • The Crew-1 mission currently on the ISS involves three NASA astronauts and one JAXA astronaut, while two NASA astronauts and one each from ESA and JAXA are scheduled to begin the Crew-2 mission in the spring of 2021. Source: space.com Mixed Crews • NASA, in return for enabling NASA astronauts to fly on Soyuz spacecraft, has expressed its confidence in what it terms 'mixed crews,' flying Russian cosmonauts on commercial crew vehicles. • Such trades, will guarantee that at least one NASA and one Roscosmos astronaut are on the ISS if any Soyuz or commercial crew vehicles are out of operation for a period of time. Source: Twitter Implementation Agreement • Discussions are underway to prepare for mixed crews. Joel Montalbano, NASA ISS programme manager, said that they are looking to fly on each other's vehicles, possibly later in 2021. • The first step to do so, he said, is a implementation agreement from government to government that was being prepared at the time of the briefing. Source: reddit.com Crew-3's launch • Crew-3's launch will coincide with Crew-2, just as Crew-2 will overlap with Crew-1, said NASA. • That suggests that the first Boeing CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle operating mission, dubbed the Starliner-1, is likely to be postponed until at least the spring of 2022. • In August, NASA revealed that it had chosen astronaut Jeanette Epps, joining Sunita Williams and Josh Cassada, who were assigned to the flight in 2018, for that mission. Source: spacenews.com Future Missions • NASA said at the time of the announcement that Starliner-1 would be launched by the end of 2021, but did not have a more reliable timeline. • The agency confirmed that a second uncrewed spacecraft test mission, Orbital Flight Test 2, was planned for March 29. • That will be followed in the summer of 2021, by a crewed test flight with three NASA astronauts on board. Source: nasa.com
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