De-escalation: Roscosmos launches Menon, Dubrov, and Kikina
Roscosmos launched the Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft at 10:47 a.m. EDT on July 14 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, bound for the International Space Station.
The three-person crew includes NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina.
After a successful liftoff, the trio is headed for an eight-month stay aboard the ISS.
Menon will be the first American to reach space in more than three months, following April’s Artemis II mission.
Menon, an Indian-origin American and former SpaceX flight surgeon, is on his first spaceflight and is the first former SpaceX employee to fly as a NASA astronaut.
The crew is assigned to join Expedition 75 upon arrival at the station.
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