{"id":3461,"date":"2026-07-15T07:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T07:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3461"},"modified":"2026-07-15T07:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T07:40:06","slug":"u-s-russia-space-crew-arrives-at-the-iss-despite-bitter-space-race-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3461","title":{"rendered":"U.S.-Russia space crew arrives at the ISS despite bitter space race past"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Russian crewmates Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina lifted off as scheduled at 7:47 p.m. (10:47 a.m. EDT, 1447 GMT) aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 for an eight-month stint on the orbiting outpost. Their spacecraft docked smoothly at the station in automatic mode about three hours after the launch.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3459\">Florida\u2019s big tax cut plan assumes a level of migration that has already collapsed 90%<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA Administrator\u00a0Jared Isaacman\u00a0attended the launch, the first visit to Baikonur by a NASA chief in eight years that highlighted the ongoing cooperation in orbit between Moscow and Washington, despite tensions over Russia\u2019s military action in\u00a0Ukraine.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Before the launch, Isaacman met with the head of Russia\u2019s state corporation Roscosmos, Dmitry Bakanov. Speaking during Monday\u2019s meeting with the crew, Isaacman thanked Roscosmos for its efforts to prepare for the mission, saying that \u201cthe integrated work performed over the past several months reflects the professionalism and dedication of everyone involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Isaacman also had a meeting with Russia\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov. Manturov\u2019s office said they discussed prospective cooperation on the International Space Station and other projects.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3455\">The AI boom drove China\u2019s 27% export jump in June as AI and the Iran war reshape global trade<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mission is Menon\u2019s first space flight and the second for Dubrov and Kikina.<\/p>\n<p>The trio will join NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway and Chris Williams, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, Sergei Mikaev and Andrei Fedyaev.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Once bitter rivals in the space race during the Cold War, Russia and the U.S. cooperate on the space station and other projects. That relationship was marred by tensions after Moscow sent troops into Ukraine in 2022, but Washington and Moscow have continued to work together, with U.S. and Russian crews flying to the orbiting outpost on each country\u2019s spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>Plans for broader cooperation, including possible Russian involvement in NASA\u2019s\u00a0Artemis program\u00a0of lunar research, have fallen apart. As Russia has become increasingly reliant on China for its energy exports and imports of key technology amid Western sanctions, Roscosmos has started cooperation with China on its prospective lunar mission.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3453\">2.6 million Americans dropped ACA coverage as subsidies expired \u2014 fraud or price shock?<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The joint mission comes as broader cooperation stalls and Russia pivots toward China on future space projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nasa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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