The Russian and American crew explode in the Soyuz missile heading to ISS | Space News

The spacecraft with two Russian and American astronauts took off from Baikonur

A Russian missile bears a crew from the United States and Russia with the International Space Station (ISS).

The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 10:47 (05:47 GMT) on Tuesday. The space journey remains a rare way to cooperate between the United States and Russia, with the collapse of relations after the launch of Moscow war In Ukraine in February 2022.

With Jonathan Kim from NASA and Russian astronaut Sergey Resikov and Alexei Zubitsky on board, the ship Go Rososmos said in Russia’s state at a later time, and Russia’s satellite company said.

Roskosmos said that the task of launching the latest Soyuz launch is to conduct 50 scientific experiments in space, before returning to Earth on December 9.

The cohesion confirmed: Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft, which was launched from Earth a few hours ago, officially attracted to Space_station At 4:57 am et (0857 UTC). Stay tuned as we salute the most recent crew members of the station; The coverage begins at 7 am East time (1100 UTC). pic.twitter.com/mg6bkzclql

– In (nasa) April 8, 2025

The Soyuz missile is decorated to celebrate the eighties of the end of World War II.

However, despite continuing cooperation on space journey, the United States and other Western countries have stopped other partnerships with Roscosmos as part of a large number of sanctions against Russia due to the war.

President Vladimir Putin’s envoy, Kiril Dimitriev, who is trying to reset US relations in Russia and hold talks in Washington last week, said the launch of Tuesday is the latest example of a relationship of permanent space exploration that follows its history until 1975.

It was when I saw the first United States carried out by the United States, the Soviet Union, and Soyuz Passato in space.

That task, which appeared as the first international handshake in space, was a symbol of the Cold War.

“The Russian and the United States continues in the space industry today,” Dimitriev said, and it publishes a video on the official Telegram channel in the missile.

Dimitriev added that Moscow may also provide a small nuclear power plant for a task to Mars planned by the CEO of Spacex Elusk.

The Russian space program, which has for decades, has the source of great pride, for years of chronic lack of financing, corruption and failure scandals.

Luna-25 probe, the first mission in the country in nearly 50 years, Shattered On the surface of the moon after an accident during the pre -length exercises in August 2023.

Moscow has started to expand its space cooperation with other countries, including China, which remains The only country that fell to an investigation on the dark side of the moon.

As ISS approaches the end of its service life, Russia has also announced plans to start its space station. The first two units are expected to be launched in 2027.