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There's no doubt that Russia's invasion of Ukraine has rocked the entire international space community — but that hasn't stopped NASA and SpaceX fromAnna Kikina to the International Space Station on board a Crew Dragon spacecraft today, in a striking example of how the rank and file at the Russian and American space programs have continued working together even as the two countries are locked inIn fact, it's the first Russian cosmonaut to have launched on an American-made rocket...
While the SpaceX crew makes its way to the International Space Station — the station's 68th crew rotation in 21 years — tensions are flying high back on the ground, with Russian president Vladimir Putin evenDespite the drama on the ground SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft, fittingly dubbed Endurance, is not shuttling Kikina into orbit alongside a crew of two NASA astronauts and a Japanese astronaut.
Without a hitch, the Falcon 9 rocket took off from the Kennedy Space Center today at exactly 12 pm Eastern time. US-Russian relations have been icy, to say the least, with former head of Russian space agency Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin — a controversial figure who was removed from his post shortly after signing the seat barter agreement with NASA earlier this year —
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