As the first European to fly SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, Andreas will be in charge of overseeing the vehicle’s systems and performance while also advancing European spaceflight.
The final two crew members of Crew-7 mission, whose pilot is astronaut Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency (ESA), have been revealed. Later this summer, they will launch to the International Space Station (ISS).
Satoshi Furukawa of Japan and Konstantin Borisov of Roscosmos will occupy two seats in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon in addition to Andreas and NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, who were already named as Crew-7 pilots.
Both of them will serve as mission specialists on Crew-7, under the command of Jasmin. As the first European to fly SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, Andreas will be in charge of overseeing the vehicle’s systems and performance while also advancing European spaceflight.
The four of them will spend about six months on the Space Station as part of Expeditions 69 and 70. They will launch together from Cape Canaveral in Florida, the United States.
Satoshi Furukawa was chosen as an astronaut in 1999, and his training was complete in 2001. He has a medical doctorate with a gastrointestinal surgery focus.
He participated in the 13th expedition NEEMO and spent ten days in an underwater laboratory off the coast of Florida. He is a certified mission specialist with NASA, a flight engineer for Soyuz launches, and a qualified flight engineer.
He was a member of Expedition 28 and 29 when he travelled to the Space Station in a Soyuz spacecraft in 2011 for a 165-day mission. Since 2014, he has served as the head of JAXA’s Space Biomedical Research Group, which promotes space medicine research.
Konstantin Borisov will occupy the fourth position after being chosen for astronaut training in 2018. He holds two master’s degrees, one in science and the other in aircraft building, both in operations research and systems analysis. Konstantin will be travelling to space for the first time.
As the commander of mission Crew-7, Jasmin “Jaws” Moghbeli is in charge of every aspect of the flight, from takeoff to reentry. She completed a master’s degree in aerospace engineering while working as a test pilot for the US Marine Corps and has over 2000 hours of flight time in over 25 different aircraft.
In addition to working on the Human Landing System, the lander for the Artemis programme that will send people to the Moon’s surface, she began her training as an astronaut in 2017. She will make her space debut with Crew-7.