A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is to blast off early Monday for the International Space Station carrying two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and the second Emirati to voyage to space.
is set to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:45 am . Weather conditions are expected to be near perfect., dubbed Endeavour, is scheduled to dock with the ISS at 2:38 am on Tuesday if all goes as planned.
Space has remained a rare venue of cooperation between Moscow and Washington since the Russian offensive in Ukraine placed the two capitals in sharp opposition.Bowen, a veteran of three space shuttle missions, said politics rarely come up while in space. While aboard the ISS, the Crew-6 members will conduct dozens of experiments including studying how materials burn in microgravity and researching heart, brain and cartilage functions.
The space agency expects Crew-6 to have a handover of several days with the four members of the SpaceX Dragon Crew-5, who have been stationed on the ISS since October. Crew-5 will then return to Earth.Also currently aboard the ISS are Russian cosmonauts Dmitry Petelin and Sergei Prokopyev, as well as NASA astronaut Frank Rubio.
The ISS was launched in 1998 at a time of increased US-Russia cooperation following the Cold War space race.
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