The International Space Station welcomes its first female commander, and Soyuz astronauts have returned to Earth.
CTOnews.com, October 1 (Xinhua) as the Soyuz spacecraft was unlocked and returned to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) at 03:34 EDT, ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti from Italy took over the baton and became the first female commander in the history of the International Space Station.
Subsequently, three Russian astronauts Oleg Artemiyev (Oleg Artemyev), Dennis Matveyev (Denis Matveev) and Sergei Kosakov (Sergey Korsakov) landed in the southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, at 04:57 Kazakh time, and successfully returned to Earth.
▲ Soyuz MS-21 landed, photo source: NASA TVCTOnews.com inquiry learned that three Russian astronauts arrived at the space station aboard the Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft on March 18. The three spent 195 days in space, crossing 3120 Earth orbits and 7800 million miles.
▲ photo source: Russian Federation Television in addition, the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft docked with the International Space Station on September 22, and the two Russian astronauts Sergei Prokopiyev and Dmitry Pederin and American astronaut Francisco Rubio entered the International Space Station smoothly.
▲ photo source: NASA TV returned to Earth with the 68th Expedition. Currently, there are seven crew members of the International Space Station, including NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, Frank Rubio and Jessica Watkins in addition to Samantha, and Russian Space Agency astronauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin.
"I am looking forward to leading this very talented space team with what I have learned in space and on Earth," Samantha said of taking over as commander. She will be responsible for communicating with the crew on Earth, coordinating the crew's response in emergency situations, and monitoring the performance and health of astronauts in orbit.
It is worth mentioning that SpaceX's NASA Crew-5 manned space mission was postponed to October 5 due to hurricane weather, when NASA astronauts Nicole Onapman and Josh Kasada, Japanese astronaut Wakata Koichi and Russian cosmonaut Anna Chinna will be sent into space by dragon spacecraft, and they will live in an orbiting laboratory for five months.
Among them, Nicole will be the first Native American woman to reach space, while Anna will be the first Russian to fly to the International Space Station on the SpaceX spacecraft.
▲ Photo Source: NASA "NASA:SpaceX Crew-5 took the Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as early as October 3, including Russian female astronauts."
