A Russian cosmonaut will soon also fly aboard a SpaceX rocket launching from U.S. soil.
rocket to the International Space Station , despite tensions between both countries over Russia's Ukraine invasion.
The mission took off from the Russian-run Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9:54 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, September 21. The crew, including NASA's Frank Rubio and Russia's Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, docked at the ISS four hours later.Both NASA and Russian space agency Roscosmos live streamed the launch, which was a rare example of U.S.-Russia cooperation in recent months. Commentators mentioned shortly after the launch that the crew were "feeling well.
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