The departure of the American spacecraft Crew Dragon, including the crew of cosmonaut Anna Kikina, from the International Space Station (ISS) was delayed due to adverse weather conditions in the splash area. NASA provides information on this.
Specialists of the American space agency “evaluated the predicted weather conditions and decided to abandon the possibility of leaving the ship.” It was originally scheduled for March 9 at 03:00 US East Coast Time (11:00 Moscow time).
Strong winds are reported at the landing site.
Earlier it was learned that she was the only female cosmonaut in the Roscosmos detachment. will begin Post-flight rehabilitation in the USA.
On October 7, it was reported that the crew of the Crew Dragon spacecraft, including Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina, had been transferred to the International Space Station. Docking of Crew Dragon to the ISS took place in automatic mode at 00:01 Moscow time.
Anna Kikina is a Russian test cosmonaut of TsPK’s Yu A. Gagarin Scientific Research Institute. World’s 592nd cosmonaut and USSR/Russia’s 129th cosmonaut. She is also the fifth female Soviet/Russian cosmonaut, and the sixth Russian woman to make a space flight. She has remained the only woman in the Roscosmos cosmonaut corps since September 2016.