SpaceX launches first fully international crew to ISS
SpaceX Launches United Nations Crew to International Space Station
In an awe-inspiring pre-dawn launch on Saturday, SpaceX made history by sending the United States’s first space flight to the International Space Station, featuring a diverse crew from different countries.
The crew, consisting of a NASA astronaut and astronauts from Japan, Russia, and Denmark, is set to arrive at the space station on Sunday morning. Their mission is to relieve the four astronauts who have been stationed there since March.
“Space travel is difficult, but you make it look easy,” exclaimed NASA’s Jasmin Moghbeli, the mission commander, from the Crew Dragon capsule after the launch. “We’re a united team with a common mission. Go Crew-7. Awesome ride.”
The crew also includes members from the European Space Agency, Japan, and Russia, namely Andreas Mogensen, Satoshi Furukawa, and Konstantin Borisov, respectively.
During their six-month stay on the space station, the Crew-7 team will conduct groundbreaking research on the potential risks of bacteria and fungi from human-led space missions. They will investigate whether these microorganisms can be expelled from the space station’s vents and released into space.
Another crew, featuring a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts, is scheduled to launch from a station in Kazakhstan in mid-September.
“We are extremely proud — and I know I personally am humbled — to be a member of this incredible crew, where if you look at our four patches you’ll see a different nation’s flag on each one,” Moghbeli expressed during a news conference in Florida. “We hope this represents what we can accomplish when we work together in unity and cooperate together. And we think this really is what the International Space Station is all about.”
This launch, originally planned for Friday, marks the eighth manned SpaceX flight for NASA. Although Boeing is also expected to send astronauts to the space station, technical issues have caused delays until at least 2024.
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