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Targeted Date: March 17, 2022
5.30 p.m: Eastern
Mission: Artemis
Rollout for Wet Dress Rehearsal
Description:
Rollout is the first time the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft will make their way to the launch pad ahead of Wet Dress Rehearsal, which is the final
test of the integrated system before launch and will be conducted at
aunch Pad 39B. The rehearsal will run the Artemis
launch team through
operations to load propellant into the rocket $ tanks and conduct
full launch countdown:
Date: March 30, 2022
7.29 a.m. Eastern
Mission: Soyuz MS-19 Crew Return t0 Earth
Description:
Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei of NASA will return tO Earth on the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft; landing in Kazakhstan on March 30, after an
American astronaut record-breaking 355 consecutive days in Earth orbit  Vande Hei will return with cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anton
Shkaplerov of Roscosmos. Vande Hei arrived at the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft on April 9
2021.
Targeted Date: March 30, 2022
2.36 p.m: Eastern
Mission: Axiom-
Mission t0 the International Space Station
Description:
The spaceflight; designated as Axiom Mission
(Ax-1), will launch from NASAS Kennedy Space Center in Florida and travel
to the International
Space Station: Once aboard the orbiting laboratory; the four-person Axiom Space crew will conduct science, outreach; and commercial activities
for eight days before their return to Earth
NASA and Axiom mission planners will coordinate in-orbit activities for the private astronauts tO conduct
in coordination with space station crew members and flight controllers on the ground:
Targeted Date: April 15,2022
Mission: NASAs SpaceX Crew-4 Mission to the International Space Station
Description:
Missions teams are targeting no earlier than April 15, 2022, for the launch of NASAs SpaceX Crew-4 mission to the space station for a six-month
science mission aboard the microgravity laboratory:
Date: Spring 2022
Mission: X-57 First Flight
Description:
The first flight of NASAs X-57,
small; experimental airplane powered by electricity: All-electric technology will make flying cleaner; quieter; and
more sustainable. The flight will take place at NASA'S Armstrong Flight Research Center in California