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In 2018, NASA plans to send to the ISS two American astronauts, among whom will be a black woman ex-employee of the CIA Janette Epps, who will become the first African American (as they call in US Blacks) as part of the International Space Station.
According to the US aerospace agency, a native of the city New York State Syracuse Janet Epps to be sent to the ISS in May next year as a flight engineer, she will be part of fifty-sixth expedition under the command of Andrew Feustel (USA). The commander himself will go into orbit in March 2018, first as flight engineer of the fifty-fifth expedition, to then head next ISS command.
Janette Epps will also be a member of the fifty-seventh expedition, that is, it will be delayed at the orbital station if nothing unexpected will happen. As the squad leader said Houston Space Flight Center Astronaut Chris Cassidy Janette has sufficient knowledge and experience that can be share at the station. For example, she is a doctor in the field aerospace engineering, seven years served as a technician in The CIA.
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Note that at the moment, the Russian ISS are on watch astronauts Sergey Ryzhikov, Andrey Borisenko, Oleg Novitsky, Frenchman Tom Peske, as well as American astronauts Peggy Witson, Robert Kimbro.
It became known that last December the Russian management agreed to use the ISS until 2024, in addition An additional term is being discussed – until 2028. Already agree with him Russia, Canada, USA and Japan. European Space Agency until you’re ready to give an affirmative or negative answer – the long-term EU budget is not yet clear. NASA Director Charles Bolden believes that the International Space Station can successfully function not only until 2028, but also in the further run. The main thing is that the leadership of the United States and Russia find mutual understanding in this matter, as, however, in all the rest.
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