A Japanese astronaut handed over a mission sash to a compatriot who arrived with three different astronauts aboard a SpaceX capsule on Saturday, becoming a member of him and several other others on the Worldwide House Station (ISS).
Japan’s Soichi Noguchi handed over to Akihiko Hoshide who had lived on the ISS earlier than.
The Worldwide House Station’s inhabitants swelled to 11 on Saturday with the jubilant arrival of SpaceX’s third crew capsule in lower than a 12 months, carrying 4 astronauts, together with Hoshide.
It is the most important crowd up there in additional than a decade.
The astronauts are from the US, Russia, Japan and France.
The capsule arrived a day after launching from NASA’s Kennedy House Heart.
The newcomers will spend six months on the area station.
They’ll exchange 4 astronauts who will return to Earth in their very own Dragon capsule Wednesday to finish a half-year mission.
NASA intentionally deliberate for a short overlap so the outgoing SpaceX crew might present the brand new arrivals round.
The present inhabitants consists of six People, two Russians, two Japanese and one from France.
It’s going to shrink by 4 on Wednesday when three People and Noguchi depart for house and a splashdown within the Gulf of Mexico.
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