Astronauts from the US, Russia, Denmark and Japan prepared to spend six months onboard the International Space Station
It is the first US launch where every spacecraft seat was occupied by a different country – until now, Nasa had always included two or three of its own on its SpaceX taxi flights. A fluke in timing led to the assignments, officials said.
‘To explore space, we need to do it together,’ the European Space Agency’s director general, Josef Aschbacher, said minutes before lift-off. ‘Space is really global, and international co-operation is key.’Ms Moghbeli’s parents fled Iran during the 1979 revolution. Born in Germany and raised on New York’s Long Island, she joined the Marines and flew attack helicopters in Afghanistan.
Mr Furukawa spent a decade as a surgeon before making Japan’s astronaut cut. Like Mogensen, he has visited the station before.
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