America won the race to the moon, but Russia still proudly claims the most space 'firsts,' including the first satellite, the first man in space, the first woman, the first spacewalk, the first multi-member crew and the first space station.
America won the race to the moon, but Russia still proudly claims the most space "firsts," including the first satellite, the first man in space, the first woman, the first spacewalk, the first multi-member crew and the first space station.
But non-government space missions are now a reality thanks to SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and available-for-hire Crew Dragon capsules, along with commercially developed sub-orbital spacecraft owned by Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos. With Shkaplerov at the controls, flanked on the left by Shipenko and on the right by Peresild, the Soyuz MS-19/65S spacecraft atop a Soyuz 2.1a rocket is scheduled for liftoff from Site 31 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:55:02 a.m. ET or 1:55 p.m. local time."We are ready," Peresild said in a translated Instagram post. "Even though we are, of course, nervous. And that's why we support each other all the time. No one had this experience yet.
Peresild and Shipenko plan to spend 12 days aboard the space station, filming in the Russian segment of the lab before returning to Earth in the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft with Novitskiy, who will be wrapping up a 190-day mission. In remarks provided by Channel One, Shipenko was asked about Tom Cruise. The director said talk of a flight by the American actor prompted the Russian team to "speed up the production, the preparation process."Peresild will ride into orbit strapped into the right seat of the crew's Soyuz MS-19/65S spacecraft. / Credit: Roscosmos
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