Two Russian and one American astronaut arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) amid tensions between Russia and the United States.
Euro News reported this information in a report on Saturday about the Russian space agency ROSCOSMOS.
NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, along with ROSCOSMOS cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chubb, boarded the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday, the Russian space agency said. After three hours the spacecraft reached the ISS. There they joined three Russians, two Americans, a Japanese astronaut and a representative of the European Space Agency. The astronauts arrived at the space station after Russia’s first lunar mission in nearly 50 years failed last month. The ISS is an exceptional venue for US-Russian cooperation. These astronauts will return to Earth in MS-23 spacecraft.