Crewmembers Train in Russia for International Space Station Mission | NASA

Crewmembers Train in Russia for International Space Station Mission | NASA

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, the prime crew for the Soyuz MS-26 launch to the International Space Station, NASA’s Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, and their backups, NASA’s Jonny Kim, Sergei Ryzhikov and Alexei Zubritskiy, conducted qualification training Aug. 20 and 21 for their upcoming trip to the orbital outpost. Pettit, Ovchinin and Vagner are scheduled to launch on Sept. 11, 2024, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a planned six-month mission to the complex.

NASA Astronaut Donald R. Pettit Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/people/donald-r-pettit/

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/donald-r-pettit/

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.

Video Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 8 minutes, 24 seconds

Release Date: Aug. 23, 2024

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