Nasa and the SpaceX will launch their latest crewed mission into space on a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida this morning.
It is scheduled to blast off at 10.49am.
The mission will see a number of scientific experiments conducted on the ISS covering human research, biology, fluid physics, material sciences and environmental sciences.
The Falcon 9 first stage supporting the mission previously launched the Crew-1 mission in November 2020.
This is the second crew rotation flight with astronauts on the Crew Dragon spacecraft and the first launch with two international partners as part of the Nasa’s commercial crew programme.
European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet will fly aboard the Dragon spacecraft during the Crew-2 mission.
After successfully docking at the space station, the astronauts of Crew-2 will join the Expedition 65 crew aboard the orbital outpost, including the Crew-1 astronauts still aboard.
After a six-month stay, Dragon and the Crew-2 astronauts will depart from the ISS no earlier than October 31 for return to Earth and splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida.
The Crew-1 astronauts are targeted for return in late April or early May.
