Mashable: NASA Crew-7 arrived on the ISS on Sunday

A new crew of astronauts recently joined the United Arab Emirates-based astronaut Sultan Al-Neyadi and six other astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

The Emirati astronaut along with his fellow Crew-6 teammates have welcomed four new arrivals to the orbiting space laboratory International Space Station.

On Sunday, August 27, 2023, the new crew arrived on the ISS aboard NASA and SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft. The spacecraft blasted off the Earth on Saturday.

Sultan AlNeyadi joined his crewmates and welcomed the Crew-7 mission astronauts. The new crew consists of four namely Nasa astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli of America, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen of Denmark, Satoshi Furukawa of Japan, and cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Russia.

Meanwhile, the launch of Crew-7 which is the seventh rotation mission for NASA was pushed back to Saturday. According to The National News, NASA revealed in a blog that it was delayed to give engineers a day more to review a component of the environmental control and life support system of the Crew Dragon capsule.

The International Space Laboratory (ISS) took to X, formerly Twitter, and shared a video of the new crew being welcomed by the Expedition 69 crew aboard the orbiting laboratory.

Hear from the #Crew7 quartet as the Expedition 69 crew welcomes them aboard the orbiting laboratory. pic.twitter.com/q7aS96J955

— International Space Station (@Space_Station) August 27, 2023
Welcome #Crew7, to the International @Space_Station. Commander @AstroJaws and her crewmates are beginning a mission of about six months living and working on our orbiting lab. pic.twitter.com/Tr4p1wP4lR

— NASA (@NASA) August 27, 2023
The new crew will spend six months in the orbiting space laboratory and carry out several science experiments.

The “Sultan of Space” and his fellow Nasa astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev have been orbiting the Earth since March 2023.

On Thursday, August 17, 2023, NASA announced that the Crew-6 would begin their journey back home no earlier than September 1, 2023.

Our #Crew6 astronauts have been living and working on the @Space_Station for nearly six months—now, they're about to come home!

We'll talk with them from space on Wednesday, Aug. 23. Share your questions for the crew with #AskNASA: https://t.co/cJ2vh8eVqu pic.twitter.com/vdlb1aAg4n

— NASA (@NASA) August 16, 2023