July 15, 2026 11:22 AM
Russia sends American and two cosmonauts to space station with rare NASA chief visit
Russia sent two cosmonauts and an American astronaut to the International Space Station on Tuesday from Kazakhstan, resuming crewed flights from a recently repaired launchpad with a rare joint attendance by the heads of NASA and Russia's space agency. U.S. astronaut Anil Menon and cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard Russia's Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft at 10:47 a.m. EDT (1447 GMT), bound for the ISS, where they will spend about eight months as the s...