SpaceX launches joint astronaut crew to ISS
An international team of four astronauts began on Friday to the International Space Station in a SpaceX rocket, and a routine NASA mission that could be many that may have been a few months longer than normal.
The four-man crew-two NASA astronaut, a Russian cosmonaut and the Japanese astronaut-Cuma on the day of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, sitting in the Falcon 9 rockets of the Falcon 9 rockets of the Dragon Capsule on the Dragon Capsule and defeated the gloomy air to explode at 11.43:00 at 11.43:00. Roughly, they will come to ISS after a 16 -hour flight.
NASA, normal crew rotation tasks lasted about six months, the crew-11 crew, the US task programs with Russia’s tasks to better align a new routine time to settled a new routine, he said.
For the next few months, NASA officials will follow the health of SpaceX’s dragon capsule, which was placed in ISS before increasing the task to eight months.
The mission of Thursday, called the crew-11, includes NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Michael Fincke, Russian cosmonautut Oleg Platonov and Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui.
An attempt to launch on Thursday was drawn at the last minute due to bad weather.
A delegation of senior Russian space officials, including the President of the Russian Space Agency, Dmitry Ministerov, was in Florida on Thursday, but it was unclear whether they stayed in the city for the launch of Friday.
His visits on Thursday included the first face -to -face meeting between Russia’s space agency, NASA and Roscosmos since 2018.
Space cooperation is a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, otherwise it is largely a brilliant point in cold US-Russia relations.
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