The SpaceX Crew-7 mission launched from Florida on Saturday morning, hosting one of the most internationally diverse astronaut crews to date, with members from the US, Japan, Russia and Denmark.
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Four astronauts — representing four nations and space agencies across the globe — launched aboard a SpaceX rocket toward the International Space Station, kicking off a mission expected to last more than six months.
The crew is riding aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance capsule on the mission, dubbed Crew-7. The spacecraft launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 3:27 a.m. ET Saturday.
The four astronauts on the mission include NASA’s Jasmin Moghbeli, who is serving as mission commander; Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen representing the European Space Agency; Satoshi Furukawa of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA; and Russian cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Roscosmos.
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There really is no excuse for the ESA to not have a human rated rocket. The EU far exceeds the GDP of the USSR and USA of the early 60s. I look forward to them getting their act together and reading about launches with astronauts from their launch site in South America.
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Moghbeli also has military experience under her belt, including serving as a Marine Corps test pilot and logging more than 150 combat missions and 2,000 hours of flight time.
This latest rideshare deal, however, loomed large over NASA last year amid rising tensions between the United States and Russia over the ongoing war in Ukraine.
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Russia’s Soyuz are currently the only vehicles capable of carrying astronauts to and from the space station, though NASA hopes to introduce another provider in the coming months.
Before being selected for astronaut training by ESA in 2009, he was a research fellow at the Surrey Space Centre in the UK, where he studied navigation and control for spacecraft landing on the moon.
Furukawa said he looks forward to reinhabiting the microgravity environment on the space station and delving into scientific pursuits, including research that could aid the development of new medicine and projects that could help inform how humans can one day explore the moon.
In mid-September, the space station crew will also welcome NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, along with cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, who will be launching aboard the Russian Soyuz MS-24 capsule.
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