SpaceX capsule with US astronauts and Russian cosmonaut reaches ISS

Created: 07/10/2022 19:23

By: Victoria Krumbeck

Russia and the USA started a flight to the ISS despite strained relations due to the Ukraine war.

The astronauts arrived on Thursday.

Cape Canaveral - Hurricane Ian upset plans to send a rocket carrying three astronauts to the ISS.

But now a missile from the US Air Force missile launch site in Cape Canaveral made its way into space.

The special: In addition to a Japanese, two US astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut are on board the rocket.

It is the first time since the Ukraine war that astronauts from the United States and Russia have flown together from American soil to the International Space Station (ISS).

SpaceX rocket with US astronauts and Russian cosmonaut reaches ISS

The so-called "Crew-5", consisting of four astronauts, flew on Wednesday (October 5) from the Cape Canaveral Cosmodrome in the US state of Florida.

The astronauts landed on the ISS in the "Crew Dragon" of the private company SpaceX owned by Tesla boss Elon Musk.

The launch was originally supposed to take place on October 3rd, but Hurricane Ian thwarted the plan.

The hurricane hit Florida particularly hard, causing devastation and numerous deaths.

The members of "Crew-5" and other astronauts on the ISS.

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The "Crew-5" includes NASA astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann, her NASA colleague Josh Cassada and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata.

The Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina is also part of the crew.

The four astronauts arrived on Thursday and are scheduled to spend the next five months aboard the ISS.

There they will take care of some scientific experiments.

The war in Ukraine is also straining relations between Moscow and Washington.

Russia accuses the USA and the EU of making the Russian space work more difficult with the sanctions imposed by the West.

This also includes the production of missiles that can be used by the military.

For a certain time, cooperation between the two countries was on the brink.

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After launch, the Falcon 9 rocket stage landed on a ship in the Atlantic called Just Read the Instructions.

A rocket stage drives the rocket for a certain period of time and is a component of a multi-stage rocket.

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The crew also picked up a curious zero-gravity mascot - an Albert Einstein toy.

This toy had a simple task.

When it starts to levitate, the astronauts know that weightlessness has been achieved.

One also speaks of a zero-gravity indicator, i.e. a zero-gravity indicator.

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About two weeks ago, the two Russian cosmonauts Sergei Prokopjew and Dmitri Petelin flew to the ISS together with the NASA astronaut Frank Rubio.

The three astronauts took off on board a Soyuz capsule from the Russian cosmodrome Baikonur in the steppes of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Central Asia.

Also on board the ISS are Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren and Jessica Watkins.