None of those crews have included cosmonauts.Components of human endothelial cells stained for identification. soil aboard SpaceX rockets over the past two years. space shuttle ended in 2011, only resuming launches from U.S. NASA began paying to fly its astronauts to ISS aboard Soyuz after the U.S. He said NASA was also still in talks with Roscosmos on a new "crew exchange" deal that would pave the way for astronauts and cosmonauts to routinely share flights to the space station on each other's spacecrafts. The new three-member cosmonaut team replacing Vande Hei, Dubrov and Shkaplerov aboard the ISS is expected to arrive on the orbiting laboratory on March 18 as planned, Montalbano added. astronauts over the years, Montalbano said. Logging a NASA record-breaking 355 days in orbit by the time he returns, Vande Hei will be greeted in Kazakhstan by a team of about 20 NASA personnel flying into the former Soviet republic for the homecoming as they have for previous ride-sharing liftoffs and landings by U.S. Montalbano said Roscosmos had recently confirmed "Mark Vande Hei is coming home March 30 with Anton and Pyotr, period." NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, who flew to the orbital outpost aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft launched last April from Baikonur, is due to return to Kazakhstan on March 30 in a different Soyuz craft with cosmonaut peers Pyotr Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov. "They've trained to do a job, and they're going to do that job." But the teams are professional," he added.
Are they aware of what's going on on Earth? Absolutely. You don't see country lines or state lines," Montalbano told reporters. "When you're in space, there's no borders. Irina Spector/GCTC/Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERSĪsked whether escalating geopolitical tensions over Putin's invasion of Ukraine, which Russia calls a "special military operation", might spill over to undermine morale or U.S.-Russian cooperation on the space station, Montalbano insisted ISS "interdependency" between the two former space rivals remains firmly intact. The International Space Station (ISS) crew members Mark Vande Hei of NASA, cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos are pictured during space suit check at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan April 9, 2021.
sanctions imposed against Moscow over the Ukraine crisis could "destroy" ISS teamwork and lead to the demise of the space station itself.
The durability of longstanding U.S.-Russian collaboration in space was called into question last month when Dmitry Rogozin, head of Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, suggested U.S. "We both need each other to operate the International Space Station," Montalbano told a news briefing on two upcoming ISS spacewalks by NASA crew members, the first of which was to begin on Tuesday.
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Joel Montalbano, manager of NASA's International Space Station (ISS) program, also said U.S.-Russian cooperation aboard the orbital research outpost, currently home to four Americans, two Russians, and one German from the European Space Agency, remained free of tension. astronaut is still slated to share a ride back from the International Space Station with two cosmonauts aboard their Soyuz capsule later this month, despite U.S.-Russian antagonism over the war in Ukraine, NASA officials said on Monday.
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