USA - Cape Canaveral - A SpaceX spacecraft has delivered a new crew of four to the International Space Station (ISS). The flight from Kennedy Space Center to the ISS took 15 hours, the AP reported.
The Crew-11 mission crew consists of US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, Japanese astronaut Kimiya Jui and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov. They will spend at least six months in orbit, possibly eight. They replace colleagues who have been on the ISS since March. The four astronauts are due to be brought back to Earth by SpaceX on Wednesday.
This is the first spaceflight for biologist and polar explorer Cardman, who became a NASA astronaut in 2017, and Platonov, an engineer trained in aircraft operations and air traffic control who became an astronaut in 2018. The arrival of the new crew temporarily increased the space station's population to 11. While the current flight was quick by U.S. standards, the Russians hold the record for the fastest trip to the space station, which they made in three hours, the AP reports.
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