SpaceX Crew-14 is the fourteenth operational NASA Commercial Crew Program flight and the 22nd crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft. The mission will transport four crew members—NASA astronauts Kayla Barron and Christina Birch, JAXA astronaut Makoto Suwa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Harutyun Kiviryan—to the International Space Station (ISS).
Crew NASA's Kayla Barron was announced as the mission commander. This will be her second spaceflight.
The pilot, Christina Birch, was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2021 and holds a doctorate in biological engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This will be her first flight. This will be the first mission for Makoto Suwa, a Princeton University educated PhD in geoscience who worked for the United Nations World Meteorological Organization before being selected as a JAXA astronaut in 2023. Lastly, Roscosmos' Harutyun Kiviryan is also a rookie who has a background as a military rocket engineer before being selected as a cosmonaut in 2021.
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