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Monday, August 28, 2023 03:16 PM

NASA has sent an international crew of four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), with members representing four countries. The agency’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission is the seventh mission in NASA’s commercial crew cycle.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Dragon spacecraft into orbit with NASA astronaut Jasmine Mokbeli, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisovship aboard.

The Dragon spacecraft lifted off at 10:58 a.m. EST, NASA said, shortly after the station crew opened the hatch between the space station and the pressurized mating adapter.

Group work

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said the crew will conduct more than 200 science experiments and technology demonstrations for missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond. What is clear is that when we work together we can do more – and learn more.”

Crew-7’s experiments included collecting microbial samples from the exterior of the space station, the first study of human response to different periods of spaceflight, and studying the physiological aspects of astronaut sleep.

Crew-7 joins the space station Expedition 69 crew of NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen, Woody Hoberg and Frank Rubio, as well as Emirati astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi and Roscosmos astronauts Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitry Betlin and Andrey.

And the number of crew members on the space station will increase to 11, so that the six crew members Bowen, Hoburgh, Neyadi and Vidyaev will return to Earth after a few days.