Crew-4 Mission Astronauts Make Debut Visit to Marshall

The Human Exploration Development & Operations Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center recently hosted SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts who are part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. This was the first post-flight visit from a commercial crew to the center since before the COVID-19 pandemic began. NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, commander; Bob Hines, pilot; and Jessica Watkins, mission specialist; and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, mission specialist, were part of the agency’s fourth commercial crew mission to the International Space Station, which launched April 27 from Kennedy Space Center and returned Oct. 14, splashing down off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida. The visit was sponsored by Marshall’s Payload Operations Integration Center, which operates, plans, and coordinates the science experiments onboard the space station 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. Several employees also participated from Marshall’s commercial crew support team, which helped provide oversight to safety standards for the Crew-4 mission’s spacecraft, along with monitoring launch conditions. This upload includes b-roll and sound bytes in order of appearance from the followin