Group hug! Astronauts headed toward the International Space Station demonstrate there there’s no room for politics among them.
TORONTO – There may still be tension between Russia and the United States, but for astronauts there’s nothing but love.
American astronaut Reid Wiseman, German astronaut Alexander Gerst and Russian cosmonaut Maxim Suraev are headed toward the International Space Station on Wednesday.
When asked during a press conference if there was tension among them – referring to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine – the astronauts all got up and embraced.
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Over the past few months, NASA has severed ties with the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), except for missions to the ISS. Russia said it won’t continue co-operating with the United States on the space station past 2020.
The trio’s scheduled to lift off in their Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday at 3:57 p.m. They will join Commander Steve Swanson and flight engineers Oleg Artemyev and Alexander Skvortsov who have been aboard the ISS since March 27.
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