Expedition 68 – NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Flight Day 1&2 Highlights and Crew-4 Mission Returns Home
Expedition 68 – NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Flight Day 1 Highlights – Oct. 5, 2022
A Russian cosmonaut joined two NASA crewmates and a Japanese space veteran on a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on Wednesday to the International Space Station
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts lifted off at 12 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 5, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, bound for the International Space Station for the fifth commercial crew rotation mission aboard the microgravity laboratory. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelled the Crew Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, into orbit to begin a long-duration science mission on the space station.
Expedition 68 – NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Flight Day 2 Highlights – Oct. 6, 2022
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts docked autonomously to the forward port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module at 4:57 p.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 6. NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, arrived after a one-day journey to begin a long-duration science mission on the space station. Following docking, Mann, Cassada, Wakata, and Kikina joined the Expedition 68 crew of NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, Frank Rubio, and Jessica Watkins, and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut and station commander Samantha Cristoforetti, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin.
Expedition 68 – NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Flight Day 1 Highlights – Oct. 5, 2022 45:00 mins
Oct 5, 2022 NASA Video
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts lifted off at 12 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 5, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, bound for the International Space Station for the fifth commercial crew rotation mission aboard the microgravity laboratory. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelled the Crew Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, into orbit to begin a long-duration science mission on the space station. The Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Endurance, will dock autonomously to the forward port of the station’s Harmony module at 4:57 p.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 6. Join NASA as we go forward to the Moon and on to Mars – discover the latest on Earth, the Solar System and beyond with a weekly update in your inbox. Subscribe at: www.nasa.gov/subscribe
Expedition 68 – NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Flight Day 2 Highlights – Oct. 6, 2022 – 24:27 Mins
Oct 6, 2022 NASA Video
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts docked autonomously to the forward port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module at 4:57 p.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 6. NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, arrived after a one-day journey to begin a long-duration science mission on the space station. Following docking, Mann, Cassada, Wakata, and Kikina joined the Expedition 68 crew of NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, Frank Rubio, and Jessica Watkins, and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut and station commander Samantha Cristoforetti, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin. Join NASA as we go forward to the Moon and on to Mars – discover the latest on Earth, the Solar System and beyond with a weekly update in yo– inbox. Subscribe at: www.nasa.gov/subscribe
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 Mission Returns Home
Streamed live on Oct 14, 2022 NASA
The astronauts of Crew-4 have undocked from the International Space Station and are on their way home to Earth. Watch live with NASA as the Dragon spacecraft Freedom reenters the atmosphere and splashes down off the coast of Florida. Splashdown is targeted for 4:55 p.m. EDT (2055 UTC), Friday, Oct. 14. NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Jessica Watkins, Bob Hines, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti spent five and a half months living and working aboard the orbiting laboratory. During their stay, they contributed to a number of experiments to expand our understanding of space while benefitting life on Earth: https://go.nasa.gov/3yCDeW0 Credit: NASA
Ing’s Comments
Expedition 68 – NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Flight was a successful trip of bringing 4 astronauts to the space station. This trip Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, from Russia joined with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata and USA, NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada. This event makes me realize that countries can come together with knowledge, manpower and resources, to discover new things. This advances human kind bringing constructive inventions to the world as a whole. It takes time and hundreds or thousands of knowledgeable people to produce the work that space expiration achieves, including a large amount of financial support. But then I think of Mr. Putin of Russia invading Ukraine, a much smaller country, bombing Ukraine to utter devastation. This is called a destructive, rather than a constructive operation. If we try to do something constructive and suddenly someone come and destroys everything that we work so hard to achieve, how would we feel? Why are we working so hard with space expiration and other science experiments, if some dictators like Mr. Putin come along and destroys everything. At this time in the US, Mr. Trump, did not like the outcome of the presidential election, so he mobilized his followers to attack the capital. They also attempted to find Vice president Mike Pence, and Nancy Pelosi, Leader of the House of Representatives, in order to hang them. Mr. Trump may still destroy the democratic system of this country by his influence and lies among his followers, including extreme right-wing politicians.
The destruction caused by Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin will be the subject of my next posts.
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Sunday, October 16, 2022
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