With this new mission, the total number of people in orbital space will reach 19. Find out the details.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft was launched into space on September 11 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying on board NASA astronaut Don Petitt and Roscosmos cosmonauts Aleksey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. They will carry out important research and experiments in space.
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What is the objective of NASA’s new mission?
The spacecraft is expected to complete a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the station and then automatically couples to the Rassvet module. This is a crucial process for the integration of the new crew to the space station.
Once on board, the three new members will join the mission being carried out by the nine astronauts who are part of Expedition 71. They will be there in the orbital laboratory for approximately six monthsreturning to Earth in spring 2025.
With this new mission, the total number of people in orbital space will reach 19of which 5 are women.
The 12 tenants of the International Space Station are accompanied by the three taikonauts, astronauts from the People’s Republic of China, of the Shenzhou 18 mission, who have been at the Chinese space station Tiangong from April to October this year.
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