Next ISS Crew Trains for Upcoming Launch to the Station

Next ISS Crew Trains for Upcom­ing Launch to the Station



NASA,International Space Station,Expedition 49–50 crew,Shane Kimbrough,Andrey Borisenko,Sergey Ryzhikov,Roscosmos,Star City,Russia



The Inter­na­tion­al Space Station’s Expe­di­tion 49–50 crew, includ­ing NASA’s Shane Kim­brough is con­duct­ing crew qual­i­fi­ca­tion train­ing in Star City, Rus­sia, in prepa­ra­tion for the crew’s upcom­ing launch to the sta­tion. Kim­brough and his crew­mates, cos­mo­nauts Andrey Borisenko and Sergey Ryzhikov of the Russ­ian space agency Roscos­mos, will launch aboard a Soyuz space­craft at 2:17 p.m. Sept. 23 from the Baikonur Cos­mod­rome in Kaza­khstan. At the space sta­tion, they will join Expe­di­tion 49 mem­bers, NASA astro­naut Kate Rubins, Roscos­mos cos­mo­naut Ana­toly Ivan­ishin and Japan­ese Aero­space Explo­ration Agency astro­naut Takuya Onishi. Togeth­er, the six crew mem­bers will con­tin­ue the sev­er­al hun­dred exper­i­ments in biol­o­gy, biotech­nol­o­gy, phys­i­cal sci­ence and Earth sci­ence cur­rent­ly under way and sched­uled to take place aboard humanity’s only orbit­ing lab.



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