Crew-5 astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada of NASA, Koichi Wakata of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency , and Anna Kikina of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, October 5.
Mann, Cassada, Wakata, and Kikina will join the space station’s Expedition 68 crew of NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, Frank Rubio, and Jessica Watkins, as well as European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin. “Missions like Crew-5 are proof we are living through a golden era of commercial space exploration,” NASA chief Bill Nelson said on Wednesday. “It’s a new era powered by the spirit of partnership, fueled by scientific ingenuity, and inspired by the quest for new discoveries.”
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