Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Ap) – the First astronauts in more than 40 years From India, Poland and Hungary arrived at the international space station on Thursday, which were torn from him there Spaceex On a private flight.
The four -member crew will be spent two weeks Circle the laboratoryPerform dozens of experiments. They started Wednesday from Nasas Kennedy Space Center.
The most experienced astronaut of America, Peggy Whitson, is the commander of the visiting crew. She works for Axiom Space, the Houston Company, who arranged the charter flight.
In addition to Whitson, the crew includes India’s Shubhanshu Shucla, a pilot in the Indian Air Force; Hungary Tibor Kapu, mechanical engineer; and Poland’s Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski, a radiation expert and one of the project managers of the European Space Agency at temporary flight.
Nobody ever visited the international space station from these countries. The time when someone was shot from these countries in orbit was in the late 1970s and 1980s and traveled with the Soviets.
“It is an honor that you join our outpost for international cooperation and exploration,” Nasa’s mission control drove minutes after the Linkup high above the North Atlantic from Houston.
The newcomers shared with the seven full -time residents of the space station around hugs and handshake and celebrated with straws with drinks bags. Six nations were represented: four from the USA, three from Russia and one from Japan, India, Poland and Hungary.
“It’s so great to finally be here. It was a long quarantine,” said Whitson and referred to the extra long isolation of the crew before it is to stay healthy.
They went to quarantine on May 25th and stuck in it when their start was delayed again and again. The most recent shift was for monitoring the space station and Leck, which NASA wanted to make sure that after repairs, everything was safe on the Russian side of the outpost after repairs.
It is the fourth flight to the space station sponsored by Axiom since 2022. NASA plans to give up the international space station after more than three decades of business in 2030 and encourages private companies to replace it.
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