A Native American Family Member and Commander of SpaceX Mission X: Journey to the Space Station, Arriving at Point Contact, and Arriving in Perseus

The spaceflight marks a historic moment, as Mann not only became the first Native American woman ever to travel to space. She’s also serving as mission commander, making her the first woman ever to take on such a role for a SpaceX mission.

Mann said during a news conference Saturday that the event will be special to him and his community.

Her crewmates will also represent a broad swath of cultural backgrounds. She will be going to the space station along with fellow NASA astronauts from Minnesota, Koichi Wakata, and JAXA, as well as Anna Kikina, a Russian cosmonaut.

Mann is proud to represent Native Americans and his heritage. “I think it’s important to celebrate our diversity and also realize how important it is when we collaborate and unite, the incredible accomplishments that we can have.”

Mann grew up in Northern California and is a registered member of the Wailacki tribe of the Round Valley reservation, which encompasses several Indigenous tribes that were forced onto the same post-colonial reservation in the mid-1800s.

Mann told Indian Country Today that many of his family still live in that area. We got together for a family reunion a few weeks ago. So it’s really important, I think, for us to continue to create those bonds.”

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A colonel in the Marine Corps, Mann began a military career as a second lieutenant in 1999, according to NASA’s website. She went to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan after two years of flight training, according to NASA. She flew the F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet as a test pilot.

In August, she told reporters that she was in her 20s. I realized that it was possible to be anastronaut, but it was also quite doable. As a young girl I did not know that that was an opportunity and a possibility.

She hoped that the story of young children from different places would inspire other children. “In fact, I hope it inspires adults as well to follow your dreams and to realize that the limitations that we may have had in the past are starting to be broken down.”

In the years after NASA was formed in the mid-20th century, astronauts were all White men — even through the final days of the space agency’s famed Apollo program. When Sally Ride became the first American woman in space in 1983, it was followed by the first Black woman in space, Guion Bluford.

NASA has been working to make its astronaut corps more diverse. The space agency wants to put the first woman and first person of color on the moon.

NASA is still working to get a mega moon rocket off the ground as the Artemis program hasn’t taken off yet. But Mann was selected as one of 18 astronauts that could be assigned to the program’s first moon landing mission.

There is a diverse group of Artemis astronauts that take turns going to the International Space Station, where they conduct scientific experiments and keep the aging space station running.

“What we are going to do in low-Earth orbit is a stepping stone to achieve those goals of exploration into deep space,” Mann said, using the term “low-Earth orbit” to refer to the area of space where the ISS orbits. “We’re going to gain a ton of experience flying in low-Earth orbit, and any of us could be assigned to an Artemis mission in the future. And hopefully we’ll walk on the moon together one day. “

Stephen Bowen, a veteran of three space shuttle missions, and first-time flyer Warren “Woody” Hoburg are two of the astronauts on the Crew6 team.

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NASA shared footage of their crew aboard their capsule after reaching space, sharing their excitement as they explained that they had brought a small stuffed Albert Einstein doll with them. The toy was left floating around the cabin to signal that the crew had become hypoxic.

Einstein, who first conceptualized the Theory of Relativity, had the “happiest thought of his entire life” when he realized that a “person in freefall can feel their own weight,” Cassada explained in a dispatch from the Crew Dragon spacecraft.

We are in the same universe and in the same world. Sometimes we experience it in a very different way from our neighbors. We can all keep that in mind … and continue to do amazing things,” Cassada said, and Kikina could be seen pumping her fist as he spoke. “And do it together.”

Astronaut Nicole Mann greets her family while departing the crew quarters. She is the first Native American woman to ever travel to space. She’s also serving as mission commander, making her the first woman ever to take on such a role for a SpaceX mission.

What’s more, Kikina is the first Russian to join a SpaceX mission as part of a ride-sharing deal NASA and Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, inked in July. Despite mounting tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the US and Russia will still continue their partnership in space, at least for now, because she participated in the flight.

The Crew Dragon, the vehicle carrying the astronauts, will detach from the rocket after launch and spend about one day maneuvering through orbit before linking up with the space station. The capsule is scheduled to dock at 1:17 am Friday.

SpaceX and NASA launched a crew of astronauts who hail from all over the world on a trip to the International Space Station (ISS) Wednesday. The mission went forward even though there was more tension on the ground.

After she arrived in Florida on Saturday, she told reporters that she loved her crewmates. I feel good. We will be happy doing our job.

“We just continue what was started many years ago, in 1975 when the Apollo-Soyuz crew worked together,” Krikalev said, referring to an in-space meet up in 1975 that became a symbol of post-Cold War cooperation between the United States and Russia. “Now we continue that.”

Mann and her fellow NASA astronaut Josh Cassada, who grew up in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, both joined NASA in 2013. Mann is one of the closest friends on the planet.

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Veteran astronaut Wakata, who flew on NASA’s shuttle and Russia’s Soyuz in the past, will be on this mission for the fifth time.

“I still remember when I first flew and saw our beautiful home planet,” he recalled during an August press conference. It was so wonderful to call this planet our home and I felt lucky to be here.

The crew will join the seven other astronauts already aboard the International Space Station after reaching it.

Experiments will include studies on printing human organs in space, understanding fuel systems on the Moon, and better understanding heart disease, according to NASA.

The program was to allow private companies to design, build and test a new craft to serve NASA astronauts while giving the company ownership over the vehicle.

Officials at NASA have continued to extend the agency’s partnership with SpaceX, growing the value of their overall deal to encompass 15 total crewed missions at a value of more than $4.9 billion.

The Crew Dragon is under a fixed price contract, but it retains ownership over the vehicle. That means the privately held company also has the ability to sell seats to whomever it wishes. The Crew Dragon missions were funded by wealthy thrill-seekers. And there are future private missions in the works.

Roscosmos delayed the launch of an uncrewed Soyuz MS-23 cargo ship after a leak on Progress 82

Russia’s space agency is preparing to launch a mission on Friday to provide a ride for two cosmonauts and one U.S. astronaut who are on the International Space Station without a designated ship to get home.

The spacecraft that brought the three crew members to the ISS in the fall later experienced a leak in its radiator cooling loop, and officials from both countries had to develop a new plan to get the trio back to Earth.

Following an investigation into the leak, Roscosmos engineers determined that the craft wouldn’t be viable for a normal return mission to Earth. It would still be available in the event of an emergency.

The new plan was for an uncrewed SoyuzMS-23 to be launched on Febuary 19 and fly the astronauts and two cosmonauts back to Earth.

An unpiloted Russian cargo ship called Progress 82 that was docked at the space station suffered an unexplained depressurization of its coolant loop on Feb. 11.

The leak on Progress 82 was not connected to the planned rescue mission, but it prompted engineers at the Russian Mission Control Center near Moscow to investigate why the cargo vessel lost coolant and postpone the launch of the MS-23.

Roscosmos announced on Monday that a state commission had issued a permit approving the launch of the replacement ship, the Russian state news agency TASS reported.

Source: https://www.npr.org/2023/02/21/1158409905/russia-space-station-crew-stranded-rescue-nasa-soyuz

The Space Shuttle Mission to the International Space Station (ISS): Russian Cosmonaut Fedyaev and the Space Shuttle Crew Six astronauts

The spacecraft will carry roughly 948 pounds of cargo to the space station, including food and equipment for experiments. In several months, the four will fly home in the MS-23. They were originally scheduled to leave by late March but NASA said in January that their missions would now last until September.

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule are expected to take off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 1:45 a.m. ET Monday.

In the course of up to six months, they’re expected to carry out science experiments and maintain the station.

Russian cosmonaut Fedyaev joined the Crew-6 team as part of a ride-sharing agreement inked last year between NASA and Roscosmos. The agreement aims to ensure continued access to the ISS for both Roscosmos and NASA: Should either the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule or the Russian Soyuz spacecraft used to transport people there experience difficulties and be taken out of service, the other can handle getting astronauts from both countries to orbit.

Despite ongoing geopolitical tensions spurred by its invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, Russia remains the United States’ primary partner on the ISS. NASA has said that the conflict has had no impact on the cooperation between the countries.

The example of living on Earth is being set because of space cooperation, Fedyaev said during the news briefing.

He said that he had been working and training with the cosmonauts for over two decades. We all have the same goal after we get to space, so it is just one crew, one vehicle.

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Bowen grew up in Cohasset, Massachusetts, and studied engineering, obtaining an bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the United States Naval Academy in 1986 and a master’s degree in ocean engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in 1993.

He became the first submarine officer to be chosen by NASA when he was selected for the space agency’s astronaut corps in 2000.

Hoburg graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a Doctor of Engineering degree in electrical engineering and computer science, and then went on to become an assistant professor at MIT. He joined NASA’s astronaut corps in 2017.

“We’re going to be living in space for six months. In the six months ago, Hoburg thought about his expectation of the journey and realized it would be a long time.

But, Hoburg added, “I’m deeply looking forward to that first look out the cupola,” referring to the well-known area on the ISS that features a large window offering panoramic views of Earth.

Alneyadi, who served as backup in 2019 for Hazza Al Mansouri, the first astronaut from the UAE to travel to orbit, is now slated to become the first UAE astronaut to complete a long-duration stay in space.

In a January news conference, Alneyadi said he planned to bring Middle Eastern food to share with his crewmates while in space. He will also be packing along a kimono, the martial art’s traditional uniform.

“It’s hard to believe that this is really happening,” Alneyadi said at a news conference after arriving at Kennedy Space Center on February 21. There is no need to ask for more of a team. I think that we are ready.

During their stay, the crew will host two other important missions that will stop by the space station. The first is the Boeing Crew Flight Test, which will mark the first astronaut mission under a Boeing-NASA partnership. NASA astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams were scheduled to be on the space station for April, in the last phase of a testing and demonstration program Boeing needs to complete before it can certify its Starliners for regular astronauts.

A group of four astronauts are scheduled to arrive at the space station in May on a privately funded flight. That initiative, which will deploy a separate SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, will have as its commander Peggy Whitson, a former NASA astronaut who is now a private astronaut with the Texas-based space company Axiom, which brokered and organized the mission.

He said it was another paradigm shift. During our increment we have two big events happening, which I don’t think we’ll be able to fully absorb until after the fact.

After the first attempt to get the astronauts off the ground was unsuccessful, a new crew will be sent to the International Space Station.

The issue that had left the first launch attempt grounded on Tuesday was resolved by early Wednesday morning, according to an update from NASA posted to its website.

During the launch broadcast, officials had reported that ground systems engineers made the decision to call off the launch with less than three minutes on the clock. The engineers said they detected an issue with a substance called triethylaluminum triethylboron, or TEA-TEB, a highly combustible fluid that is used to ignite the Falcon 9 rocket’s engines at liftoff.

“After a thorough review of the data and ground system, NASA and SpaceX determined there was a reduced flow back to the ground TEA-TEB catch tank due to a clogged ground filter,” according to the NASA update.

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Since the year of 2020, NASA-sponsored flights by the privately-owned company, Space Exploration Technologies, have brought seven new astronauts to the space station.

It will also include three paying customers, similar to Axiom Mission 1, which visited the space station in April 2022, including the first astronauts from Saudi Arabia to visit the orbiting laboratory. Their seats were paid for by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.