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Seven people are up there right now: three Americans and one Italian who flew up with SpaceX and three Russians who arrived in a Soyuz.Ĭlick here to download the free WFTV news and weather apps, and click here to watch the latest news on your Smart TV. NASA named a group of 19 more astronauts in April 1966. NASA said the agreement will “ensure continued safe operations” of the space station and protect those living on board. Rogozin was expected to be given a new post. NASA The extended mission will allow researchers to study the effects of. READ: NASA hopes New Zealand launch will pave way for moon landingįriday’s news came just hours after the chief of the Russian space agency, Dmitry Rogozin, was replaced by President Vladimir Putin, although the move did not appear to have any connection to the crew swap. NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei (background) and Roscosmos cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov launched to the space station in April 2021. Russian cosmonauts rode to the space station on NASA’s shuttles back in the early 2000s.īefore that, during the 1990s, astronauts and cosmonauts took turns flying on each other’s spacecraft to and from Russia’s Mir space station. All seven were military test pilots, a requirement specified by President Eisenhower to simplify the selection process. The first group of astronauts selected by NASA were for Project Mercury in April 1959. NASA astronauts routinely launched on Russian Soyuz rockets - for tens of millions of dollars per astronaut - until SpaceX started flying station crews from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in 2020. Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton. WATCH: NASA reconnects with Capstone spacecraft en route to find new pathway to the moon No money will exchange hands under the agreement, according to NASA. Another crew swap will occur next spring. That same month, Russian cosmonaut, Anna Kikina, will join two Americans and one Japanese aboard a SpaceX rocket flying from Florida. astronaut Frank Rubio will launch to the space station from Kazakhstan with two Russians in September. NASA, on September 30, announced the selection of two astronauts who will launch to the International Space Station (ISS) on Boeing’s first licensed flight. STREAM CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS LIVE <<<
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