Next Space Station Crew Continues Pre-launch Training Tradition in Russia

Next Space Sta­tion Crew Con­tin­ues Pre-launch Train­ing Tra­di­tion in Russia



NASA,Soyuz,Anatoly Ivanishin,Roscosmos,Kate Rubins,Takuya Onishi,Japan Aero­space Explo­ration Agency,Oleg Novitskiy,Peggy Whitson,Thomas Pesquet,European Space Agency,Gagarin Museum



Expe­di­tion 48–49 Soyuz Com­man­der Ana­toly Ivan­ishin of Roscos­mos and Flight Engi­neers Kate Rubins of NASA and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aero­space Explo­ration Agency, along with their back­ups, Oleg Novit­skiy of Roscos­mos, Peg­gy Whit­son of NASA and Thomas Pes­quet of ESA (Euro­pean Space Agency) vis­it­ed the Gagarin Muse­um where they viewed his­toric space arti­facts at the Gagarin Cos­mo­naut Train­ing Cen­ter in Star City, Rus­sia May 31, then vis­it­ed Red Square in Moscow for tra­di­tion­al cer­e­monies. Ivan­ishin, Rubins and Onishi are sched­uled to launch June 24 from the Baikonur Cos­mod­rome in Kaza­khstan in the Soyuz MS-01 space­craft for a four-month mis­sion on the Inter­na­tion­al Space Station.



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