Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX has done it again. Another crew of astronauts, consisting of a Russian and three Americans, safely reached the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a ‘Crew Dragon’ rocket.
The so-called Crew-8 was launched on Sunday (local time) from the Cape Canaveral spaceport in the US state of Florida. They docked on Tuesday and were warmly welcomed by the current ISS crew, as seen in a video broadcast by the US space agency NASA.
This was the repeated time since the beginning of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and the resulting tensions between the US and Russia that astronauts from both countries reached space together. NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick and Michael Barratt, their colleague Jeanette Epps and cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin are expected to work on the ISS for about six months.
The ISS crew now consists of eleven people
Various medical experiments are planned, among other things. It is the first space flight for Epps, Grebenkin and Dominick, and Barratt is visiting the space station for the third time. This time there was already a crew of seven on board.
Source: Krone
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