Thomas Marshburn correct checked off one in every of the closing duties on his orbital to-waste list.
The NASA astronaut handed uncover of the Global Purpose Situation (ISS) over to cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev as we thunder (Would possibly perchance well well perhaps also unprejudiced 4), the closing day aboard the orbiting lab for Marshburn and the replacement three members of SpaceX’s Crew-3 mission.
“I mediate the lasting legacy of the house role is terribly likely to be worldwide cooperation and a job of peace,” Marshburn said all over a webcast alternate-of-uncover ceremony this afternoon.
“Oleg, you is also a extraordinarily stable and skilled cosmonaut,” Marshburn instructed Artemyev. “I do know we’ll be leaving the house role in appropriate fingers with you.”
In photos: SpaceX’s Crew-3 astronaut launch for NASA
Marshburn then said some words to the cosmonaut in Russian and handed him the ceremonial key to the ISS.
“Thanks for the most critical, and thanks for the friendship,” Artemyev answered in English. “It was once an extra special time collectively,” he added, stressing the importance of such cooperation and friendship for “family, our youth and peace between our worldwide locations.”
Artemyev and Marshburn then hugged because the replacement ISS crewmembers applauded.
It was once a extremely effective 2nd, given all that’s going down down here on Earth. Most of Russia’s home partnerships indulge in splintered in the aftermath of the country’s invasion of Ukraine, and its space as a key ISS partner has come into seek info from.
As an example, Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russia’s federal home agency Roscosmos, has again and again threatened to withdraw from the ISS program unless sanctions imposed on Russia after the Ukraine invasion are lifted. (Or no longer it is traumatic to know the arrangement severely to procedure shut such threats, then again, given that bluster might perhaps perhaps perhaps perhaps be Rogozin’s corrupt setting.)
The Crew-3 mission includes Marshburn, fellow NASA astronauts Kayla Barron and Raja Chari, and the European Purpose Agency’s Matthias Maurer. The quartet arrived at the ISS in November aboard a SpaceX Dragon pill named Patience, and their time in orbit is nearly about up.
Patience is scheduled to leave the ISS Thursday morning at 1: 05 a.m. EDT (0505 GMT) and splash down off the Florida waft about 24 hours later, at 12: 43 a.m. EDT (0443 GMT) on Friday (Would possibly perchance well well perhaps also unprejudiced 6). It’s doubtless you’ll perhaps perhaps perhaps uncover about all of this circulation dwell here at Purpose.com, courtesy of NASA.
The coverage will launch tonight at 11 p.m. EDT (0300 GMT on Would possibly perchance well well perhaps also unprejudiced 5), with the closing of the hatches between Patience and the ISS expected to happen about 20 minutes later. Protection will resume at 12: 45 a.m. EDT (0445 GMT) on Thursday, 20 minutes sooner than the scheduled undocking.
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