Last Russian flight to ISS with a US crew member takes off
Nasa has had to rely on Russia to get its astronauts to the ISS, but an $8bn programme enabled SpaceX’s first manned trip there in May
14 October 2020 - 13:11
Washington/Almaty — A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday and successfully reached orbit, live footage broadcast by Russia’s space agency Roscosmos showed.
The crew members travelling to the International Space Station (ISS) are Kate Rubins, a Nasa microbiologist, who, in 2016, became the first person to sequence DNA in space; and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov...
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