Despite the war in Ukraine, the partnership in orbit endures
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying a multi-national crew, including a Russian cosmonaut, takes off for the International Space Station on Oct. 5, 2022.lot of people overlooked the 92-year-old man who attended the Wednesday, Oct. 5 launch of the latest crew to the International Space Station . He was there among the dignitaries, and, truth be told, he was easy to miss.
Things have gotten nasty between Washington and Moscow again, ever since Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine and the sanctions regime the U.S. and other Western nations have put in place in response. U.S.
More immediately, Roscosmos and NASA also agreed to a new seat-swapping arrangement under which a NASA astronaut would fly aboard each Soyuz spacecraft headed for the ISS, and a Russian cosmonaut would, in turn, fly aboard each SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. Just over, astronaut Frank Rubio took off aboard an ISS-bound Soyuz, and on-board the Crew Dragon for Wednesday’s launch was rookie cosmonaut Anna Kikina, only the fifth Russian woman in space.
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