NASA sends a team led by a Kurdish female astronaut to the International Space Station

ARK News… The US space agency (NASA) and SpaceX launched the Dragon spacecraft, which is carrying four astronauts to the International Space Station, on a mission called "Crew-7".

The launch took place from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, with about 10,000 people gathered for the launch, which took place after a 24-hour delay to give engineers an extra day to check a component on the Dragon spacecraft.

This mission is led by the American astronaut - of Kurdish origin from Iran's Kurdistan - Yasmine Moqbali, and it includes Danish Andreas Mogensen, Japanese Satoshi Furukawa, and Russian Konstantin Borisov, and these will replace four astronauts currently aboard the International Space Station.

Cheers were heard from the mission control room immediately after the "Dragon" separated from the "Falcon-9" rocket, while the crew was in orbit. "We may have a crew of four from four different countries, but we are a team together with a common mission," Yasmin said after the spacecraft separated. ".

This is Jasmine and Constantine's first mission, and "It's something I've always wanted to do," Yasmin, the 40-year-old Navy pilot, told media last month. "One of my most exciting things is looking at our beautiful planet. Everyone I've spoken to has done In spaceflight they said: It's a perspective that has an impact on life, and swimming in space looks like fun."

It is scheduled that the team led by Yasmine will spend 6 months aboard the space station, with the aim of conducting scientific experiments, including: collecting samples during exit operations into space, to see if the station is launching.

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