Expedition 68 Crew: Launch Day | International Space Station

Expedition 68 Crew: Launch Day | International Space Station

Scenes from Launch Day: Expedition 68 astronaut Frank Rubio of NASA and his crewmates, Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin of Roscosmos successfully launched onboard their Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, and safely arrived later at the International Space Station. Their Soyuz spacecraft bore the name of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the “father” of cosmonautics. 

Rubio, Prokopyev, and Petelin will spend approximately six months on the orbital complex, returning to Earth in March 2023. 

Astronaut Frank Rubio’s Official NASA Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/frank-rubio/biography/

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the  International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls/Victor Zelentsov

Image Date: Sept. 21, 2022

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