SpaceX’s US spacecraft Crew Dragon was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin as part of the crew of the Crew-8 mission. The publication was on the website NASA.
The Falcon-9 launch vehicle carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft took off from the John F. Kennedy Space Center (Florida) at 22:53 local time (06:53 Moscow time on 4 March). The spacecraft will dock with the ISS the next day, March 5.
Alexander Grebenkin is the fourth cosmonaut from Russia to travel to the orbital station on an American spacecraft as part of the cross-flight program between the Russian Federation and the United States.
NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominic and Jeanette Epps went to the ISS with the Russian cosmonaut.
On July 15, 2022, Roscosmos announced that it had signed agreements with NASA on joint cross-flights of cosmonauts from Russia and astronauts from the United States to the ISS. The agreement includes three Russian flights with American ships by 2025.
The ISS is currently home to Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and Konstantin Borisov, American astronauts Jasmine Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara, Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen and Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa.
Russian scientists before was created Vodka-powered space engines.