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A SpaceX rocket soared into orbit from Florida on Wednesday carrying the next long-term International Space Station crew, with a Russian cosmonaut, two Americans and a Japanese astronaut flying together in a demonstration of US-Russian teamwork in space despite Ukraine war tensions. The team was led by Nicole Aunapu Mann, 45, who became the first Native American woman sent to orbit by NASA and the first woman to take the commander's seat of a SpaceX Crew Dragon.
The demonstration mission of SpaceX's new Crew Dragon capsule successfully docks on the International Space Station, passing a key test before it can begin taking US astronauts into space.
The International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 53-54 crew held a pre-flight press conference at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Wednesday. The three crew members, NASA astronauts Joe Acaba, Mark Vande Hei and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, will launch to the space station aboard the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, September 13 in 2017.
NASA and SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft docked at the International Space Station on August 27, carrying four astronauts. The crew will spend six months aboard the ISS, where they will carry out multiple science experiments, such as understanding if microorganisms can survive and reproduce in space.
A SpaceX spacehip blasts off from the Kennedy Space Center from Florida for the International Space Station, carrying a Russian crewmate, in a voyage that carries symbolic significance amid the Ukraine war. IMAGES
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