Rocket flying UAE astronaut Al Neyadi to space rolled out to Nasa launchpad, what happens next?

Rocket flying UAE astronaut Al Neyadi to space rolled out to Nasa launchpad, what happens next?

Dubai: The UAE is one step closer to its historic second astronaut mission with the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon Endeavour spacecraft, which will carry Emirati astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi and his Crew-6 colleagues, being rolled out to the launch pad in Florida on Thursday. SpaceX, Elon Musk’s spacecraft manufacturer Space Exploration Technologies Corp, on Thursday morning announced that Falcon 9 and Dragon Endeavour were rolling out of the hangar at Launch Complex 39 A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, US. “Team is completing pre-flight checkouts and setting up for no earlier than Sunday, February 26 for launch of Starlink; launch of Crew-6, which has priority, is currently targeted for Monday, February 27,” SpaceX tweeted, revealing its priority focus on the Crew 6 mission over its satellite internet constellation. “If weather and all other aspects of Crew-6 are go, we’ll stand down from Sunday’s launch attempt of Starlink,” it added. So what happens next in the historic first Arab long-duration astronaut mission by Al Neyadi? Here, Gulf News brings you an overview of the Crew-6 mission in which Al Neyadi, along with the other three crew members, will go to space and come back. Once rolled