![]() The ISS, about the length of a football field and the largest human-made object in space, has been continuously operated by a U.S.-Russian-led consortium that includes Canada, Japan and 11 European countries. NASA crew members, including commander Nicole Aunapu Mann, the first Native American woman to fly to space, along with three Russians and a Japanese astronaut. The Crew 6 team will be welcomed aboard the space station by seven current ISS occupants – three U.S. 'Space shuttle Endeavour will launch no earlier than Monday, May 16 at 8:56 a.m. The orbiter is scheduled to launch six astronauts. Unlike conventional rockets, the NASA space shuttle was designed to deliver its cargo into orbit and then to return to Earth again. Rounding out the four-man Crew 6 is Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, 41, who like Alneyadi is an engineer and spaceflight rookie designated as a mission specialist for the team.įedyaev is the latest cosmonaut to fly aboard an American spacecraft under a ride-sharing deal signed in July by NASA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos, despite heightened tensions between Washington and Moscow over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Endeavour is NASAs youngest orbiter, built as a replacement for the shuttle Challenger, which was destroyed along with its crew in 1986. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket topped with a Crew Dragon capsule had been scheduled for liftoff at 6.45 am GMT from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. ![]() ![]() This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]()
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