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US astronauts, Cosmonaut Grebenkin before the launch at the Cape Canaveral spaceport in Florida
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Three Americans and one Russian arrived at the ISS space station on Tuesday.
The so-called “Crew-8” was launched on Sunday from the Cape Canaveral spaceport in the US state of Florida.
She flew to the ISS aboard a “Crew Dragon” owned by tech billionaire Elon Musk’s private space company SpaceX.
NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick and Michael Barratt, their colleague Jeanette Epps and cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin are expected to work on the ISS for around six months, and various medical experiments are planned, among other things.
It is the first space flight for Epps, Grebenkin and Dominick, and Barratt is visiting the space station for the third time.
This time there was already a crew of seven on board.
For the repeated time since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, astronauts from both countries reached space together.
The ISS is one of the few projects on which Americans and Russians are still working together despite the political tensions during the war.
The US space agency Nasa and the Russian space agency Roscosmos have agreed that mixed space teams will fly to the station up to and including 2025, the latter announced in December.
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