'We are in the midst of an extremely busy spring,' NASA's Dana Weigel said.
where they will live and work in orbit around Earth. However, as Steve Stich, the manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Texas shared during a news conference today, the launch for Crew-4 has been moved from April 19 to April 20.
"We are in the midst of an extremely busy spring," Dana Weigel, deputy manager for NASA's International Space Station program at JSC, added during the same news conference. This will be the second spaceflight for Cristoforetti and Lindgren and the first for Watkins and Hines. The crew will fly aboard a brand-new Dragon capsule, the fourth SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle, which the crew has named Freedom. Lindgren also noted, during a news conference with the mission's crew that occurred later today, that the mission patch, which features a dragonfly, was designed by his daughter.
"This is certainly an important milestone, I think both for our agency and for the country," Watkins said during the crew news conference."I think it's really just a tribute to the legacy of the Black women astronauts who have come before me, as well as to the exciting future ahead."
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