Astronauts from US, Denmark, Japan and Russia will reach ISS on Sunday and say ‘we’re a united team with a common mission’
“We’re a united team with a common mission,” Nasa’s Jasmin Moghbeli radioed from orbit. Nasa’s Ken Bowersox, space operations mission chief, added: “Boy, what a beautiful launch … and with four international crew members, really an exciting thing to see.”
Mogensen worked on oil rigs off the west African coast after getting an engineering degree. He told people puzzled by his job choice that “in the future we would need drillers in space” like Bruce Willis’s character in the asteroid film Armageddon. He’s convinced the rig experience led to his selection as Denmark’s first astronaut.
One of the perks of an international crew, they noted, is the food. Among the delicacies soaring: Persian herbed stew, Danish chocolate and Japanese mackerel.
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