2023-08-26 09:22:11
The American “Cro-7” mission is led by Jasmine Mokbeli and includes Danish Andreas Mogensen, Japanese Satoshi Furukawa and Russian Konstantin Borisov. The vehicle was launched by a “Falcon-9” rocket at 03:27 (07:27 GMT) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in The state of Florida in the southeastern United States, in the presence of regarding ten thousand people who gathered to attend the takeoff operation. NASA wrote on the X platform, “We have taken off!” The take-off was postponed to Saturday to give engineers an extra day to check a component of the Crew Dragon, NASA said in a blog. This is the first mission for Mokbeli and Borisov. Crew-7 is the seventh routine mission of Elon’s SpaceX company. Musk, to the International Space Station. The first mission took place in 2020. The crew of the mission will spend six months at the International Space Station, where its members will conduct scientific experiments, including collecting samples during an exit into space, to see if the station releases microorganisms through the slots of the life-preserving system. The aim is to find out what If these microorganisms can survive and reproduce in space, the four astronauts will join a seven-person crew on the station before Crew-6 crew departs for Earth a few days later. © 2023 AFP
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