Astronauts from three countries are scheduled to launch on the SpaceX Crew-5 mission to the space station this fall, and for the first time since NASA began launching from U.S. soil again, a Russian cosmonaut will be joining the crew.
Mann said it took her a little longer to realize she wanted to be an astronaut, and it wasn't until she was flying jets in the Marine Corps that she decided to apply."I think as a young girl, I just didn't realize that that was, you know, an opportunity and a possibility," Mann said.
Expedition 68 crewmembers train for emergency scenarios in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston before their International Space Station mission. People photographed include: Koichi Wakata, Nicole Mann, Anna Kik"Everybody is certainly on the same page that the hardware needs to be reliable, and it needs to be safe," she said.
Cassada said he's bringing some of his favorite 1980s movies, mostly so Mann will finally get some of his references."So we're going to watch a lot of 80s movies, and particularly ‘Fletch’ every Friday, to make sure that she gets some of the jokes I've been making for the last decade," Cassada said.
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