A NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station after blasting off from Kazakhstan Wednesday morning. The crew of three, including NASA’s Kate Rubins, launched on a Russian Soyuz capsule.
It’s Rubins second stay on the space station. On a previous mission in 2016, she became the first person to sequence DNA in space.
The launch marked the last scheduled Russian flight carrying a U.S. astronaut. NASA is now working with commercial companies SpaceX and Boeing to ferry astronauts to the station, launching from the U.S.
SpaceX is set to launch another crew of four next month, three U.S. astronauts and one Japanese astronaut, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
There are now 6 crew members -- 2 Americans and 4 Russians -- currently occupying the station. Rubins joins NASA's Chris Cassidy on station.
