The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft lifts off from the launch pad at Spaceport 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the US, on March 2, 2023. Photo: AFP/VNA

According to NASA, the earliest time to implement this plan is August 15 with the launch of the spacecraft from spaceport 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The spacecraft will carry astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli of NASA, Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency, Satoshi Furukawa of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of the Roscosmos Space Corporation (Russia) to the ISS to perform specialist work on this space station.

In early March, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched into space carrying the Dragon spacecraft carrying the sixth crew of four astronauts to the ISS. According to NASA, the crew is expected to stay on the ISS for six months before returning to Earth.

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