The spaceflight marks a historic moment, as Mann not only became the first Native American woman ever to travel to space. “And do it together.”ĭubbed Crew-5, the mission is the sixth astronaut flight launched as a joint endeavor between NASA and SpaceX, a privately held aerospace company, to the space station. We can all keep that in mind … and continue to do amazing things,” Cassada said, and Kikina could be seen pumping her fist as he spoke. Sometimes we experience it in a very different way from our neighbors. “We live in the same world, we live in the same universe. The toy was left to float around the cabin, signaling that the crew had entered weightlessness.Įinstein, who first conceptualized the Theory of Relativity, had the “happiest thought of his entire life” when he realized that a “person in freefall can feel their own weight,” Cassada explained in a dispatch from the Crew Dragon spacecraft. ET from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Īfter reaching orbit, NASA shared footage of the crew aboard their capsule, sharing their excitement as they explained that they brought along a “freefall indicator” - a small, stuffed doll in the likeness of Albert Einstein. The four crew members - astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada of NASA, astronaut Koichi Wakata of JAXA, or Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and cosmonaut Anna Kikina of Roscosmos - took off aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft at 12 p.m.
The mission, which includes some historic firsts, moved forward even as rising geopolitical tensions brew on the ground. SpaceX and NASA launched a crew of astronauts who hail from all over the world on a trip to the International Space Station Wednesday.
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