Crew Dragon spaceship carrying Roscosmos cosmonaut to fly to ISS in late July – early Aug
WASHINGTON. July 3 (Interfax) – A U.S. SpaceX Crew Dragon reentry spaceship carrying Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, a member of the International Space Station (ISS) crew, is due to be launched in late July or early August, NASA said.
Besides Platonov, Crew 11 mission involves U.S. astronauts Michael Fincke and Zena Cardman and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Kimiya Yui.
The flight will be part of the Roscosmos-NASA cross-flights agreement.
The ISS currently has a seven-member crew, including Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov, Alexei Zubritsky and Kirill Peskov, NASA astronauts Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers and Jonathan Kim, and JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi.
In addition, four tourists arrived at the station aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft on June 26 on a two-week mission as part of the Axiom Space program. The crew of the spacecraft includes Axiom astronaut and former NASA astronaut, commander Peggy Whitson, spacecraft pilot Shubhanshu Shukla of India, and mission specialists from Hungary and Poland Tibor Kapu and Slawosz Uznanski.