Expedition 64 Crew 2 Crew News Conference - March 1, 2021

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 Astronauts Take Questions from Media

The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur of NASA, Akihiko Hoshide of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet discussed their upcoming mission in a preflight briefing from NASA’s Johnson Space Center. The mission is scheduled to launch no earlier than April 20 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew is scheduled for a long duration stay aboard the orbiting laboratory, conducting science and maintenance and are set to return in fall 2021.