Would you be intertested in watching a space homerun this week? The International Space Station is an orbiting scientific platform and current home to 6 astronauts and cosmonauts. It is an amazing collaboration from 5 space agencies: NASA, Roscosmos, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Canadian Space Agency and the European Space Agency. The first piece arrived on orbit in November 1998 and people have lived continually on the Station for 19+ years! A typical stay is about 6 months, however, Christina Cook (NASA) is about to complete her stay of almost a year. She and her fellow crewmembers, Luca Parmitano (ESA) and Alexander Skvortsov (Roscosmos) will be returning to earth in their Soyuz spacecraft on February 6 at 12:14 PM Moscow time. You can watch the landing and the recovery of the crew on www.nasa.gov and select the “TV� link for live coverage from the steppes of Kazakhstan where we will retrieve them via helicopter.
7 February 2020
