THis Week in Space...
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Rockets, Launches, & AI
It's been a busy week in space with cargo launches and the Arrival of a new crew!
Expedition 57 crew
Expendition 57 CommanderAlexander Gerst
Alexander Gerst is a geophysicist and a European Space Agency astronaut from Germany. He was selected in 2009 to become an ESA astronaut, he completed his training in 2010. Alex was assigned in 2014 to be apart of expedition 40 to the international space station, his mission was called "Blue Dot". In may 2017 he announced his second mission, Horizons. He launched with the expedition 56 crew Sergey Prokopyev and Serena Auñón-Chancellor.
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Flight EngineerSerena Auñón-Chancellor
Serena Auñón-Chancellor began her career with NASA as a Flight Surgeon in 2006. She is from Indiana and in 2009 she was selected as an astronaut. She is board certified in both Internal and Aerospace Medicine. She has spent more than nine months in Russia supporting the Medical operations for the ISS. She launched with expedition 56 crew with alexander gerst and Sergey Prokopyev for her first spaceflight mission in June 2018.
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FLIGHT ENGINEERSergey Prokopyev
Sergey Prokopyev is a Russian Cosmonaut, he was selected in October 2010. He was assigned as the back up commander for Soyuz TMA-18M and Soyuz MS-07. His first mission to the international space station was with expedition 56 with Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Alexander Gerst, Sergey commanded the Soyuz MS-09 for the mission, he successfully docked on June 8th, 2018.
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Expedition 58 crew
EXPENDITION 58/59 COMMANDEROleg Kononenko
Oleg Kononenko of ROSCOSMOS became a Cosmonaut in 1996 and completed his training in 1998. He since has been on 3 missions to the ISS totaling 533 days in space on Expedition 17, Expedition 30/31, and Expedition 44/45. That number will jump to 720 in June when expedition 59 concludes, pushing him up to 6th place on the most time spent in space, he is currently sitting at 17th.
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Flight EngineerDavid Saint-Jacques
David Saint-Jacques is a Biomedical Engineer from Canada. He was recruited during 2009 by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA/ASC) and was a part of the NASA Astronaut class 20 where he completed his basic training in 2011. He was a support astronaut for Expedition 35/36 and lead capcom for Expedition 38 and the Cygnus-3, Cygnus-4 and SpaceX-6 resupply. This will be his first mission to the ISS.
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FLIGHT ENGINEERAnne McClain
Ann McClain is a Mechanical/Aeronautical Engineer. She has logged more than 2,000 flight hours in 20 different rotary and fixed-wing aircrafts during her career as a Major Senior Army Aviator in the U.S. Army. She was recruited in 2013 during the NASA Astronaut class 21 where she completed her training in 2015. Before becoming an astronaut McClain also played and coached the USA National Rugby Team.
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