"We will simply hand over the responsibility for our segment to the partners," Rogozin said. "Or we will do the work necessary for operating the station on the commercial basis, rather than at the expense of the budget," Speaking to Russian news agency Interfax, Rogozin said Rosocosmos is considering exiting the more than 20-year partnership with NASA as its station segment ages. As many as 13 people briefly lived aboard the station during the space shuttle program.įriday's launch came during a week when U.S.–Russia relations, at least in the confines of spaceflight, seemed to take an unanticipated turn: Roscosmos space agency director Dmitry Rogozin said his country might leave the ISS after 2025 to pursue its own station.
Once aboard the ISS, Crew-2 will boost the station's complement to 11 – not quite a record, but close. Crews are typically responsible for station maintenance, conducting science experiments, and staying in shape to combat microgravity's effects on the body, to name a few. All are spaceflight veterans.Īll four will spend about six months on the ISS before their return in the October timeframe.
Kimbrough and McArthur are NASA astronauts Hoshide is representing the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Pesquet is the European Space Agency's first to fly on Crew Dragon. It just so happens that Behnken is McArthur's husband, meaning Endeavour so far has been entrusted with a wife-and-husband duo over two separate missions. It first flew astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the ISS in May 2020 on Demo-2, the first crewed flight since the end of the space shuttle program in 2011.
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