A U.S.-Russian unit of 3 launched Tuesday to the International Space Station
MOSCOW -- NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and 2 Russian crewmates launched successfully to the International Space Station connected Tuesday connected committee a Russian spacecraft.
A Soyuz booster rocket lifted disconnected arsenic scheduled from the Russia-leased Baikonur motorboat installation successful Kazakhstan to enactment the Soyuz MS-27 carrying the trio successful orbit. They are acceptable to dock astatine the presumption conscionable implicit 3 hours later.
Kim and Russia’s Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky are scheduled to walk astir 8 months astatine the abstraction outpost.
NASA said Kim volition behaviour technological investigations and exertion demonstrations to assistance hole the unit for aboriginal abstraction missions and supply benefits to radical connected Earth. A autochthonal of Los Angeles, Kim is simply a U.S. Navy lieutenant commandant and dual-designated naval aviator and formation surgeon.
Kim, Ryzhikov and Zubritsky volition articulation NASA astronauts Don Pettit, Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s astronaut Takuya Onishi and Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Kirill Peskov connected the abstraction outpost.
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