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A Russian Soyuz rocket launches three people toward the International Space Station on Sept. 11, 2024. (Image credit: NASA+)
Three
people launched
toward the International Space Station (ISS) on September 11 aboard a
Russian Soyuz capsule,
pushing the total number of people in Earth orbit to a new high-water mark.
"With
the trio now in orbit, there is a record of 19 people currently in orbit,"
NASA commentator Anna Schneider said during the agency's webcast of the Soyuz
liftoff. The old record was 17, set last
year.
Six Chinese people also are now in the orbit. 2 two Saudis, and one Emirati astronaut were there, in Chinese Space Station, but two Saudis must have returned.
The Soyuz
that launched 11/09 has carried NASA's
Don Pettit and cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The trio reached at
the ISS around 3:30 p.m. EDT (1930 GMT), just three hours after launch.
They have joined nine people aboard the orbiting lab:
NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Tracy Caldwell-Dyson, Matthew Dominick,
Jeanette Epps, Barry Wilmore and Suni Williams, and cosmonauts Nikolai Chub,
Alexander Grebenkin and Oleg Kononenko.
Wilmore and
Williams were supposed to be home already; they launched this last June on Crew
Flight Test (CFT), the first-ever crewed mission of Boeing's Starliner capsule.
CFT was supposed to last just 10 days or so, but Starliner suffered thruster
problems in orbit, and NASA kept the capsule docked to the ISS for three months
while studying the issue. Ultimately, Starliner returned to Earth uncrewed
— which happened over
the last weekend — and bring
Williams and Wilmore home on a SpaceX Crew Dragon
capsule next February.
Source:-- Space.com & Public Domain information on ' Tiangong'
Image:- A Russian Soyuz rocket launches three people toward the International
Space Station on Sept. 11, 2024. (Image credit: NASA+)
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