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SPACE EXPLORER
“An Ingress to Borderless world”
Volume 01/Issue-06 Bimonthly 1-15,October 2022
SpaceX's Crew-5 astronaut mission arrives at
the International Space Station
Image Credit: NASA
NASA astronauts Nicole Aerospace Exploration Soon the number will drop
Mann and Josh Agency (JAXA) astronaut back down to 7 when
Cassada, JAXA (Japan Koichi Wakata, and Crew-4 astronauts Hines,
Aerospace Exploration Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Lindgren, Watkins, and
Agency) astronaut Koichi Kikina, arrived after a Cristoforetti return to Earth.
Wakata, and Roscosmos one-day journey to begin a
cosmonaut Anna Kikina long-duration science mission
arrived at the International on the space station. ISS - International
Space Station (ISS) on Following docking, Mann, Space Station Fun Fact
Thursday, October 6, as the Cassada, Wakata, and Kikina
SpaceX Dragon Endurance joined the Expedition 68 crew Þ In the space of
docked to the complex at of NASA astronauts Bob just 24 hours, the space
5:01 p.m. EDT. At the time, Hines, Kjell Lindgren, Frank station makes 16 orbits
the spacecraft were flying Rubio, and Jessica Watkins, of Earth, travelling
258 miles above the west and European Space Agency through 16 sunrises and
coast of Africa. (ESA) astronaut and station sunsets.
commander Samantha
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Cristoforetti, as well as Þ Astronauts have to work
astronauts docked Roscosmos cosmonauts out for two hours a day
autonomously to the forward Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri while on board to help
port of the International Petelin. keep their muscles in
Space Station’s Harmony shape while in space.
module at 4:57 p.m. EDT With the addition of Crew 5, Þ The ISS weighs
Thursday, October 6. NASA the number of crew on the about 420,000kg - that's
astronauts Nicole Mann and space station will increase to about the same
Josh Cassada, Japan 11 people for a short time. as 320 cars
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