Three Americans and one Russian: Four astronauts launched to the ISS on a SpaceX rocket

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After repeated postponements, three American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut have launched a six-month mission to the International Space Station (ISS). A Falcon 9 rocket from the private American space company SpaceX took off from the Kennedy Space Center in the state of Florida late on Sunday evening (local time) at the scheduled time.

A launch attempt scheduled for the previous day was canceled due to high winds. It was not the first postponement of the take-off: the flight was originally scheduled for February 22.

The US and Russia still work together in space

American astronauts Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps and Michael Barratt and Russian Alexander Grebenkin will be taken to the ISS aboard a space capsule called Endeavor. Space is one of the few areas where the United States and Russia have continued to cooperate since the war in Ukraine began about two years ago.

There are currently seven astronauts aboard the ISS. In a few days, four astronauts from the current crew from the US, Denmark, Japan and Russia will return to Earth. The new crew wants to conduct experiments with stem cells and grow so-called organoids on the International Space Station. Such mini-organs can be used, among other things, for research into organ diseases. (AFP)

Source: Blick