Russian cosmonaut Anatoli Ivanishin and American astronauts Kathleen Rubins and Japanese Takuya Onishi took off for a four-month mission from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 3h 36 (Paris time) on Thursday, July 7, 2016. “And off “, said a member of NASA, which was broadcasting the take-off in Kazakhstan. Images, and Anatoli Ivanishin Takuya Onishi celebrated the successful take-off by clapping. The launch was delayed for more than two weeks due to additional tests by Russian officials on the capsule. The improved device is equipped including a new navigation system, stronger protections and more numerous cells on solar panels.
Sequencing of DNA in space
the ship is expected to take two days to reach the space station, against six hours usually, that ground control had more time to monitor small adjustments that were made. Kate Rubins, attached to NASA, the first woman to join the ISS since the Italian Samantha Cristoforetti, record holder for the longest time spent in space by a woman in one mission (199 days) returned in June 2015. This trained biologist who joined the program in 2009, will be the first to sequence DNA in space during the mission.
Takuya Onishi, who stole as an airline pilot in a large company, is the 11th Japanese to travel in space. He will participate in experiments in connection with the program Kibo Japanese aerospace agency. This mission coincides with the Tanabata star festival in Japan. As for Anatoli Ivanishin, a former military pilot, he has already spent 165 days in space, since its first mission to the ISS in 2011 and 2012. The International Space Station orbits the Earth at a speed of about 28,000 km / h, since 1998. the three scientists will join the head of the ISS, Jeff Williams of NASA and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka and Alexey Ovchinine. Aerospace cooperation between Russia and the West is one of the few areas not to be affected by geopolitical tensions linked to the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
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