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A brand-new team of astronauts will be heading to the International Space Station in simply a couple of weeks. Crew-9 will take a trip aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. Ahead of their launch, NASA has actually exposed the 4 astronauts who will make up the following team, Crew-10. They will introduce to the ISS next year, around February 2025.
Crew-10 will include NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, plus Takuya Onishi of Japanese area company JAXA and Kirill Peskov of Russian area firm Roscosmos.
McClain will be the leader of the objective, which will be her 2nd objective to the ISS. Formerly, she invested 204 days in area and carried out 2 spacewalks, consisting of one to update the batteries as part of the ISS’s power system. McClain had actually likewise been slated to be a part of the very first all-female spacewalk, however that needed to be aborted due to spacesuit sizing problems. In the end, the very first all-female spacewalk was carried out a couple of months later on by NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir.
This will be the very first spaceflight for both Ayers and Peskov. Ayers originates from the Air Force, and belonged to NASA’s 2021 astronaut class. She is the very first member of this class to be sent out to area. Peskov is a previous pilot who was picked as a cosmonaut in 2018.
Onishi has actually been to the ISS as soon as in the past, when he invested 133 days in area. He has specific experience with Kibo, the Japanese experiment module on the ISS. This research study center is utilized for experiments in biology, physics, and innovation, and has an airlock permitting experiments to be carried out in the vacuum of area, along with in pressurized conditions. Onishi formerly built a brand-new speculative environment within Kibo throughout his remain on the station, and later on led the group that ran Kibo from JAXA Mission Control in Tsukuba, Japan.
Crew-10 is so called as they will be the 10th group of 4 astronauts sent out to the ISS on board the SpaceX Crew Dragon automobile. They will release utilizing a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket early next year.
Other astronauts take a trip to the ISS utilizing Russian Soyuz spacecraft, and the objective was to likewise have the Boeing Starliner spacecraft offered for taking astronauts to the station. The very first crewed test flight of the Starliner has actually been bothered, due to problems with the spacecraft’s thrusters and helium leakages, and the return leg of the journey has actually not yet been finished.
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