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Samantha Mathewson

Meet the SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts launching to the ISS on March 2

Three white men and a black woman stand smiling wearing blue astronaut flight suits. the circular graphic of the crew's mission patch, with an orange dragon spiralled into an 8, is in front of the group. a view of Earth at night, as seen from the space station is their backdrop.

Four new astronauts are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on Saturday (March 2) as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission.

Crew-8, the eighth operational commercial crew mission for NASA, will lift off Saturday at 11:16 p.m. EST (0416 GMT on March 3) from Kennedy Space Center in Florida using the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft, situated atop a Falcon 9 rocket. The Crew Dragon spacecraft will then dock with the orbiting lab the following day around 2:10 p.m. EST (1910 GMT). 

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