Expedition 68 Soyuz MS-22 Rocket Launch | International Space Station

Expedition 68 Soyuz MS-22 Rocket Launch | International Space Station

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, a member of NASA's 2017 astronaut candidate class, began his first mission to space this Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022,  at 13:54 UTC (18:54 local time, 09:54 EDT). Rubio lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft, alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin. They later docked at the Rassvet module of the International Space Station (ISS).

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/Roscosmos

Acknowledgement: SciNews

Duration: 6 minutes, 21 seconds

Release Date: September 21, 2022

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