Po raz trzeci 4 kobiety przebywają jednocześnie na ISS.
https://twitter.com/NASA_Johnson/status/1772668641684889944With the arrival of the Soyuz MS-25 crew, there are once again four women aboard ISS. Just in time to help celebrate Women’s History Month. This is the third time in International Space Station history where this has happened. Tracy Dyson has now taken part in two of those instances. To read more on NASA’s female astronauts visit, https://go.nasa.gov/43uZZcT
https://twitter.com/Sauravrajput01/status/1772707744803332405Women’s History Month: Celebrating Women Astronauts 2024MAR 01, 2024
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The first time four women flew aboard the space station at one time occurred between May 16 and 23, 2010. Expedition 23 Flight Engineer NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson had been living and working aboard since April when STS-131 arrived, with NASA astronauts Dorothy M. “Dottie” Metcalf-Lindenburger and Stephanie D. Wilson, and Naoko Yamazaki of JAXA as members of the shuttle crew – Yamazaki became the first Japanese woman to visit the space station. (...)
In September 2022, Cristoforetti assumed command of the space station, a first for a European woman. When Crew-5 launched aboard Crew Dragon Endurance in October 2022, NASA astronaut Nicole A. Mann became the first Native American woman in space and the first woman to command a Crew Dragon mission, and Anna Y. Kikina of Roscosmos became the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard a U.S. commercial vehicle. For the second time, two women commanders, Cristoforetti and Mann, greeted each other as Crew-5 arrived to join Expedition 68.
The launch of Crew-5 also marked the first time that five women lived and worked in space at the same time – the four women aboard the space station and Liu Yang aboard China’s Tiangong space station on her second space mission. The launch of Crew-6 in February 2023 marked the first all-male long-duration crew aboard a commercial crew vehicle.
The return of Mann and Kikina marked the end of the longest time period with at least one woman living and working in space, 879 days, or 2 years and 5 months. (...)
https://www.nasa.gov/history/womens-history-month-celebrating-women-astronauts-2024/https://x.com/Space_Station/status/1772318372845203515
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