KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – Four astronauts from three countries are set to arrive at Kennedy Space Center Friday ahead of their launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket less than a week away.
NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet, will fly aboard a Gulfstream jet from NASA’s Johnson Space Center to Florida arriving sometime in the afternoon, according to a NASA news release.
They will land on the Launch and Landing Facility, known as the old space shuttle runway, in Merritt Island. [TRENDING: BOLO for these hairy caterpillars.
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