Three new crewmembers are launching to the International Space Station today, bringing ISS back to full capacity. (Credit: NASA) Three new crewmembers will join the International Space Station this week, launching today in a Soyuz vessel from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:14 p.m. EDT. The two NASA astronauts, Nick Hague and Christina Koch, will fly with Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin on a Soyuz spacecraft and dock with ISS after a six-hour flight. They will join NASA’s Anne McClain, Roscosmos’ Oleg Kononenko, and the Canadian Space Agency’s David Saint-Jacques, who have been in space since December, to start Expedition 59.
This launch will bring the space station back to full capacity, at six team members, and NASA has expressed excitement about the work that can be done with a full crew. There is a backlog of science waiting to be completed. Hague and Ovchinin were due to join the station ...
