A Camas Excessive College graduate is a part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8, which launched March 4 en path to the Worldwide House Station (ISS).
Astronaut Michael Barratt, a 1977 Camas Excessive graduate, piloted the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, which introduced 4 crew members — together with three NASA astronauts, Barratt, Matthew Dominick and Jeanette Epps and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin to the ISS this week.
In response to NASA, Barratt has participated in two area flights earlier than this most up-to-date launch — he was the flight engineer on NASA’s 2009 Expedition flight to the ISS and was aboard considered one of NASA’s ultimate area shuttle flights, on the Discovery, which launched Feb. 24, 2011. Previous to the newest journey to the ISS, Barratt had spent a complete of 212 days in area.
In a information launch, NASA stated “the Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, (docked) autonomously to the ahead port of the station’s Concord module about 3 a.m. Tuesday, March 5.”
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