The upcoming SpaceX Crew-7 launch will host one of the most internationally diverse astronaut crews to date, with members from the US, Japan, Russia and Denmark.
Four astronauts — representing four nations and space agencies across the globe — are preparing to launch aboard a SpaceX rocket to the International Space Station, kicking off a mission expected to last more than six months. The crew will ride aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance capsule on the mission, dubbed Crew-7, that will be jointly overseen by
and SpaceX had been targeting an early Friday morning liftoff, but on Thursday night, officials abruptly waved off the launch attempt. and SpaceX as part of the agency’s commercial crew program, which has been ferrying astronauts to the space station since SpaceX’s first crewed mission in 2020. The Crew-7 astronauts represent the most internationally diverse SpaceX crew to date.
and Roscosmos, and the latter agency even was the sole transportation provider for years after has repeatedly said that tensions on the ground have had no effect on the countries’ ongoing cooperation in space. Like Moghbeli, Borisov will be making his first flight to space. “It’s so hard to imagine that soon we’ll just do similar things, but it won’t be training,” Borisov said Sunday. “I’m very excited, really. I’m honored to be a part of the international crew,” he added.
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