Crew-4 has been launched, including Samantha Cristoforetti, the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Italian astronaut, who has been at the International Space Station (ISS) for nearly six months for the Minerva mission. He is accompanied by Commander Kajel Lindgren, pilot Bob Hines and mission specialist Jessica Watkins on the Crew Dragon Freedom capsule.
The astrosome returns to orbit
All went as planned, with the Crew Dragon launched from the 39A bend of the Kennedy Space Center (Florida) by the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and is expected to join the space station at 02:15 tonight. This is the second mission for Astro Samantha after the 2014-2015 Futura. As they left, the astronauts greeted the family, with Samantha Chrysostom sending a kiss to her children before taking Tesla to the launch pad.
Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti greets her children before heading to the launch pad (Source: ESA via Twitter)
Towards the launch pad with the notes of Joanotti
On the way to the launch site, Samantha Christophoretti was accompanied by a rhythm and charge called ‘Credo Positive’. Jovonotti’s song to cheer up a car ride to the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Platform 39A is the only Italian song on the astronaut’s NASA colleague Jessica Watkins’ music list.
. The list, published by ESA on Spotify, includes 23 most successful songs with hints of space and women’s determination: Jamiroquai’s’ Cosmic girl ‘Alicia Keys’ Girl on fire’, passing ‘Starship’ by Nicki Minaj, ‘Imagine Dragons on Top of the World, Lenny Kraw ‘Fly Away’ and Beyonc’s ‘Run the World (Women)’.
Journey to the space station
The journey to reach the space station will take at least 16 hours, and all will be managed autonomously by the crew of the Crew Dragon capsule, but the astronauts can control it at any time if needed. The launch, in its fourth use, marked the new re-entry success of the first phase, which, after pushing the rocket in the first few minutes, completed a controlled landing by leaning on a floating platform called ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’ in the Atlantic. Ocean ..
The docking maneuvers for the Harmony module are expected to end at 2:15 pm Italian time tonight, while the hatch is expected to open at 3:45 am.
Seven crew members of the space station will greet the four Crow Dragon astronauts, including Matthias Maurer, a colleague at Astrosom from ESA, who landed aboard the Crow-3 mission in November 2021. To Earth, after 6 months in orbit.
Cristoforetti’s entry into the space station marks the beginning of the European Minerva mission. During the months he spends on the ship, the astronaut will be the head of the U.S. Orbital Division, which includes components from the United States, European and Canadian modules and the station. The Italian astronaut will work on several scientific experiments, six of which will help complete the installation of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the 11-meter-long European Robotic Arm (ERA), which will be used to move loads around Russia. Section of Iss: A function involving a space style, currently unconfirmed.
Sachosia (blessing), the symbol of the astrosome Italian specialty
Space exploration is one of Italy’s spearheads and astronauts have one of its clearest identities: the head of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) mentions it on the sidelines of the launch of the Crew-4, the mission of bringing Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. About six months at the European Space Agency (ESA), International Space Station (ISS).
“The exploration of space by both man and robot represents one of the spearheads of Italy’s role in international space operations,” Sacosia notes. “The astronauts – he continues – are the most visible symbol of this Italian specialty! As part of this, Astrosam will be involved in the ISS for about 6 months, during which it will conduct dozens of important scientific experiments.
