NASA astronaut who gave up seat for Starliner crew takes command of SpaceX Crew-11 flight to ISS
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Spacex Crew-11 members stand in NASA inside the Mokup Space Motor Packets at the Johnson Space Center at Houston. From the left, the mission specialist Kimia Yue from Jacqua (the space exploration agency in Japan), the leader of the NASA astronaut, the mission specialist Oleg Platonov from Roskosmos, and NASA Phenico Phenico. | Credit: NASA
Zena Cardman had to wait a long time to get a seat on another spacecraft after removing it from the Crew-9 mission from SpaceX last year.
NASA’s pioneer is one of the four members of the Spacex Crew-11 mission to International Space Station (ISS), Agency officials Announced (March 27).
Cardman will lead Crew-11, which can be launched in July. Her joining NASA Mike Fink, Japanese astronaut Kimia Yue and Olig Platonov from the Russian Space Agency Roskosmos. You will work as a Crew-11, and will be Yui and Platonov specializing in the task.
Cardman was originally assigned to the Crew-9 Spacex mission. But in late August last year, NASA She removed her and her colleague in the astronaut Stephanie Wilson From the statement, leaving two empty seats on board the crew of the crew-9 September 28.
These seats were kept open to Bush Wilmor from NASA and Sony Williams, who arrived at the International Space Station in June on the first Boeing crew at all ever Starlener capsule.
Starliner suffered from the problems of calendar and helium on its journey to the orbits laboratory, and NASA eventually decided to bring the spacecraft to the house without being unavailable, which It happened in early September. Willmore and Williams have been re -marketed on the long -term ISS mission and placed on the 9 -time crew to Earth, which ended with a Splashdown Reservation in Dolphin on March 18.
NASA has not yet announced the re -photography of the Wilson space.
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Crew-11 will be the first space for Cardman and Platonov, who were chosen by their space agencies in 2017 and 2018.
FINCKE already has three trips to the International Space Station under his belt, where a total of 382 days in space has made these missions, which occurred in 2004, 2008 and 2011. Crew-11 is a reset of Fincke as well; It was previously placed on Starliner-1, the first Boeing Capsule to NASA. that it Not clear when the crew will fly -1However, given the issues that Starlener lived on the mission of last year.
Yui worked as an flight engineer at ESS Expeeds 44 and 45, where he stayed on the station for 142 days from November 2014 to July 2015, according to NASA.
