Postponed due to a hurricane and in times of more severe international tensions, NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut were launched from American soil to the International Space Station (ISS) for the first time since the start of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine. On the “Crew Dragon” of Elon Musk’s private space company, SpaceX, the so-called “Crew-5” flew on Wednesday from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral, in the US state of Florida.
The start was scheduled for October 3, but had to be postponed due to Hurricane “Ian”. “Crew-5” consists of NASA astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann and her NASA colleague Josh Cassada, as well as Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata and Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina. You will spend about five months aboard the ISS and will take care of various scientific experiments.
Just about two weeks ago, the two Russian cosmonauts Sergei Prokopjew and Dmitri Petelin flew to the ISS along with NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, they started aboard a Soyuz capsule from the Russian Baikonur cosmodrome in the steppes of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Central Asia. .(apa/dpa)