It has been busy on board the ISS in recent weeks. In early April, the two cosmonauts Oleg Novitski and Pyotr Dubrov arrived, as did NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei. Last week, four crew-2 astronauts also arrived: the Americans Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, the Japanese Akihiko Hoshide and the French Thomas Pesquet.
Crew-1 was the first regular flight to the ISS after a successful test flight, in the spring of 2020. It was the first time since 2011 that astronauts have been put into orbit from US soil and the first time ever. happened by a private space company, namely SpaceX of Tesla boss Elon Musk.
The Crew-3 will launch in October of this year at the earliest.
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