ISS launch: New USA-Russian crew heads to space station
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:54 pm
ISS launch: New USA-Russian crew heads to space station
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https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68465056
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying three US astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut has blasted off from Florida bound for the International Space Station (ISS).
The Crew-8 mission will be in space for six months. Space is one of the few areas where the US and Russia continue to co-operate closely despite the war in Ukraine.
The three men and one woman are in a capsule used in space four times before by Elon Musk's SpaceX firm.
They plan to do various experiments.
One will involve growing artificial replicas of human organs in the low-gravity environment - which is not possible on Earth.
It will be one of more than 200 science experiments that are to be conducted during the mission, scheduled to finish in mid-August, according to Nasa's ISS programme manager Joel Montalbano.
Read more here:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68465056
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying three US astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut has blasted off from Florida bound for the International Space Station (ISS).
The Crew-8 mission will be in space for six months. Space is one of the few areas where the US and Russia continue to co-operate closely despite the war in Ukraine.
The three men and one woman are in a capsule used in space four times before by Elon Musk's SpaceX firm.
They plan to do various experiments.
One will involve growing artificial replicas of human organs in the low-gravity environment - which is not possible on Earth.
It will be one of more than 200 science experiments that are to be conducted during the mission, scheduled to finish in mid-August, according to Nasa's ISS programme manager Joel Montalbano.