r/space • u/cauliflower-hater • 2d ago
Astronaut Jonny Kim & Cosmonauts Surgey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky set to go to the ISS this month on the Soyuz MS-27 mission
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-sets-coverage-for-crew-launch-to-join-station-expedition-72-73/13
u/RedlurkingFir 1d ago
Is it dr.Kim's first mission? Dude is a Silver Star SEAL marine who then became a medical doctor and now is setting off to the ISS. What a life
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u/joepublicschmoe 1d ago
Kim drew the short straw. Most of his Group 22 classmates flew first-class on the roomy Crew Dragon. Kim will fly on Soyuz which is pretty cramped, plus the Soyuz landing is like surviving a low-speed car crash. Figure NASA would assign a certified BAMF like Kim for this flight :-)
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u/Pharisaeus 1d ago
Kim drew the short straw. Most of his Group 22 classmates flew first-class on the roomy Crew Dragon. Kim will fly on Soyuz which is pretty cramped
On the other hand Soyuz has a fast docking trajectory (only 3h) and if it's following a long trajectory then they have the orbital module as well, not just the seats in the command module. So overall it's not a bad ride.
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u/Roy4Pris 1d ago
Drew the short straw?
Motherfucker, he’s going to space. Space! Only seven hundred people have ever been.
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u/ace17708 1d ago
We hitched rides in them for a number of years and it is the safest launch system in use. Its a honor to fly on a piece of history and work with another nation
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u/aiahiced 2d ago
Jonny Kim.., It's that Navy Seal and Doctor Guy! And now he's an astronaut too. lol
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u/maksimkak 1d ago
Looking good. Alexey Zubritsky is so young, 32yo. Wishing them best of luck. I have a group on Facebook called "Soyuz Space Program", feel freee to join. ^_^
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u/StrangerConscious637 2d ago
Why are Russians still allowed to go to the ISS?
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u/PerAsperaAdMars 2d ago
Because the U.S. and Russian segments of the ISS have specific functions that make them unviable separately. And the segments require astronauts with specific knowledge from these countries to operate.
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u/TheoremaEgregium 2d ago
... because they co-own it?
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u/StrangerConscious637 2d ago
And why doesn't killing Europeans daily for years now change that?
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u/HeyImGilly 2d ago
Because both Russian and American astronomers/scientists are able to see beyond those atrocities, and know that space exploration benefits all of humanity.
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u/snoo-boop 1d ago
It's not just Russians and Americans. Many global astronomy collaborations have expelled Russian institutions. Spektr-RG is an example of a satellite which was disabled because of the war.
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u/st_Paulus 2d ago
Common sense and logic aside - how would you do that? Physically.
What about the ISS orbit decay and the energy supply?
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u/FuckRedditIsLame 1d ago
You think Nasa should somehow expropriate half the ISS from Russia? How? Why?
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u/StrangerConscious637 2d ago
And why doesn't killing Europeans daily for years now change that?
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u/jellacle 2d ago
Russian modules on the iss are vital for its operations. And anyways how is the us gonna stop Russia from sending spacecraft to its own modules? Shoot them down? In space? Not gonna happen
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u/TheTranscendentian 1d ago
Shoot them down? In space? Not gonna happen
Trump would do it if his supporters wanted it to happen.
A m e r i c a .
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u/holdmyhanddummy 1d ago
The reality is, no one is going to stop them. Unless we arm people inside the ISS to prevent the Russians from boarding, there is nothing we can do. They have their own module and they have their own rockets to get there that launch from their territory. What are you thinking anyone else can do about this?
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u/TMWNN 1d ago
What are you thinking anyone else can do about this?
It's a typically Redditard (i.e., childish) response: Demand something that is impossible, ridiculous, and/or counterproductive (in this case, starting a world war with a nuclear power) just because demanding it makes the person doing so feel slightly better for having participated in The Current Thing.
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u/Abba_Fiskbullar 1d ago
Because the US was deeply concerned about Russia losing its space capabilities when the USSR collapsed, and giving Russia billions to build their part of the ISS kept their space industry alive.
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u/StrangerConscious637 1d ago
I don't understand your arguments. Sorry. For me Russians are murderers.
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u/StrangerConscious637 2d ago
To all who gave me downvotes... So it's ok for you to send Russians to ISS although their fellow citizens kill us Europeans on a daily basis. Isn't this unfair, cruel and not right?
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u/maksimkak 2d ago
It's the Russian rocket and the Russian spacecraft. Half of the ISS belongs to Russia. Without Russia, there would be no ISS.
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u/mfb- 1d ago
So it's ok for you to send Russians to ISS
Russia launches a Russian rocket to go to Russian space station modules. How exactly would you imagine anyone forbidding this? If killing foreign nationals makes you unable to visit a space station then no one could go to any space station, by the way.
In case you wonder how a US astronaut is on that flight: As part of a long-standing agreement, Soyuz launches an American astronaut while Dragon launches a Russian cosmonaut in exchange.
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u/yellowstone10 1d ago
As part of a long-standing agreement, Soyuz launches an American astronaut while Dragon launches a Russian cosmonaut in exchange.
To elaborate a bit more - the reason for this arrangement is so that if a crew launch fails, or if a crew needs to make an emergency return to Earth (because the whole crew has to leave together, even if just one astronaut has a medical emergency), then the astronauts remaining on the station will include at least one Russian and one American. That way, both the ROS and the USOS have at least one astronaut on board with specialized knowledge of how to operate the segment.
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u/HungryKing9461 1d ago
That's like saying Russians shouldn't be allowed to travel from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
Cop on there, fella.
(From one European to another)
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u/TheTranscendentian 1d ago
So, is every citizen of every country responsible for all the bad things done by every citizen of that country?
It would be cool if there were enough Russians who opposed the needless murder of the Ukraine war.
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u/snoo-boop 1d ago
The typical global science institution response was to expel Russian institutions but allow Russian scientists to collaborate as individuals.
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u/ergzay 1d ago
There's some quite brain dead responses to this post by people who don't understand how the ISS works. You can't stop Russia from going to its own space station.