A three-member crew arrived at the International Space Station on Wednesday aboard a Russian rocket, making the fastest journey in just three hours from Earth.
For the Russian space agency Roscosmos, the mission of the Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russian astronauts and a NASA astronaut was crucial when the SpaceX program blew up a mannequin from the United States and the space between the two countries. Revealed from the latest conversation about the race.
“A new flight record was set for the International Space Station – the total time from the launch of the Suzuki MS-17 to docking was three hours and three minutes,” Roscosmos said.
Roscombs was tasked with transporting US astronauts to the ISS after the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011.
Roscosmos’ Sergei Ryzhikov and Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and NASA’s Kathleen Rubins on Wednesday at 0545 GMT. Launched by the Russian-run Baikonur Cosodrome in Kazakhstan.
ISS crew members set off for the launchpad at Bejonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. (By Russian Federal Space Agency Roscoms / Sputnik AFP)
The ISS journey typically takes about six hours – a time that was a major improvement over the two-day flights that preceded 2013.
Wednesday Clock Travel only beat the fastest for supply missions at the station.
Only one unpredictable progress cargo spacecraft has previously used this profile which requires only two bits of rabbit before docking.
Very lucky
The launch is sandwiched between two SpaceX missions – the first Crew spacelights to the ISS under NASA since 2011.
Before May 30, when US astronauts Robert Behnken and Doug Hurley arrived at the ISS compound for a car rocket tycoon. Alan Musk, Russia and Beknur enjoy a lucrative monopoly on missions launching ISS.
But their Dragon Underwear craft successfully docked with ISS only about 19 hours after landing on Rabbit.
The NASA duo returned safely on August 2 and a new SpaceX launch, this time hoping for a half-length mission to the space station, is expected next month.
The emergence of private players SpaceX and Boeing – part of NASA’s commercial crew program – sparked talk of a new “space race” between several countries.
But the men and women on the space station talk about competition and instead focus on the ability of space travel to bring opposing nations together for a common cause.
Speaking at a pre-launch press conference on Tuesday, Rubinus did not directly mention the flight of SpaceX in space when asked how she felt riding in a new era of space exports.
“We don’t have to choose our start date or what should happen on the station, but of course I feel very lucky to be on the station when these events are happening,” the American astronaut said. Said the passenger.
Strictly different before launch, including different locations and strict attire. Coronavirus Ubiquitous epidemic But astronauts and astronauts dismissed concerns about the risk of IS infection.
“We have a lot of very different, very different, very different, very different, very different, very different, very different, very different, very different, very different, very different, very different, very different Ebola Virus Before he started training as an astronaut.
Very US-centric
Ryzykov, a 46-year-old former pilot, has spent 173 days in space compared to Rubinz’s 115, while Kud-Sverchkov, 37, is flying for the first time.
Ahead of the inauguration, Ryzykov lamented the ongoing fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh and said he hoped the example of the ISS could help “spread love, friendship and camaraderie.”
The ISS, which has been in power since 2000, is a rare example of cooperation between Moscow and Washington.
Rogozin said Monday that he did not envisage “Moscow” partners on a large scale known as the gateway to the NASA-led moon-orbiting station.
Rogozin said the proposed new station was “very US-centric.”
Russia’s space program has suffered a number of setbacks in recent years, most notably the failure of a Soyuz rocket in 2018 just minutes after the explosion – the first such incident in post-Soviet space travel history. Is The two astronauts on board were not injured.
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