2023-08-27 20:07:27
The arrival of team-7 went without a hitch on Sunday. The journey of the four new astronauts to the ISS lasted about 30 hours.
The Crew-7 mission has arrived aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Docking the Dragon Endurance capsule went smoothly, although it took some time for the spacecraft to find the right position.
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The journey of the four new astronauts to the ISS therefore lasted about 30 hours.
NASA (US Space Agency) Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) Astronaut, Dane, Andreas Mogensen, Japan Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) Astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov later joined the crew of Expedition 69.
This is the first long-duration mission for the Dane, Andreas Mogensen, who had already visited the Station in 2015 for a 10-day mission called Iriss. It is also the first time that an astronaut working for an international partner has been assigned to the pilot role on a NASA SpaceX mission.
While in the orbital laboratory, the Crew-7 crew will perform “science and technology demonstrations to prepare for human exploration beyond low Earth orbit and benefit humanity on Earth,” the mission said. SpaceX.
The number of passengers on the ISS has increased to 11 for a few days.
Currently, four Americans, four Russians, a European, a Japanese and an Emirati are circling our blue planet… Until the members of Crew-6, who arrived on board the ISS, three Americans and an Emirati, return to Earth in a few days.
In a statement, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said yesterday that “Crew-7 is a shining example (…) of what we can accomplish when we work together.”
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