LIFTOFF! NASA astronauts Drew Feustel (@astro_feustel) and Ricky Arnold (@astro_ricky) and cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev (@Olegmks) of Roscosmos left Earth at 1:14 EDT to head toward the International Space Station (@iss).After a two-day flight, the new crew members will dock to the station’s docking module on Friday, March 23 and the new residents will begin their mission!
There are currently three people living on the space station, soon to be joined by the three crew members that launched today. While living aboard humanity’s only permanently occupied microgravity laboratory, they will work on hundreds of experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science.
Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky
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