Marine Col. Nicole Mann and cosmonaut Anna Kikina are traveling to the International Space Station with Navy Capt. Josh Cassada and Japan Space Agency’s Koichi Wakata for a five-month mission.
“Awesome! said Mann as they reached orbit."That was a smooth ride uphill. You’ve got three rookies who are pretty happy to be floating in space right now.”See the Close-Up Photo NASA Just Shared of Jupiter's Icy Moon Europa From Closest Spacecraft Buzz in 20 Years
The space agencies agreed over the summer to swap seats on their flights in order to ensure a continuous U.S. and Russian presence aboard the 260-mile-high outpost. The barter was authorized even as global hostilities mounted over Russia's invasion of Ukraine in late February. The next crew exchange is in the spring.
Beginning with Krikalev in 1994, NASA started flying cosmonauts on its space shuttles, first to Russia’s Mir space station and then to the fledgling space station. The 2003 Columbia reentry disaster put an end to it. But U.S. astronauts continued to hitch rides on Russian rockets for tens of millions of dollars per seat.
Mann is a member of the Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes in California, and taking up her mother’s dream catcher, a small traditional webbed hoop believed to offer protection. Retired NASA astronaut John Herrington of the Chickasaw Nation became the first Native American in space in 2002.
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