A U.S. astronaut on the verge of his first mission called his upcoming journey with two Russian cosmonauts 'incredibly important.'
to join the 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class. Prior to receiving his Doctorate of Medicine from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, he flew more than 600 hours' worth of combat missions in Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq as a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter pilot. He said his September 21 launch to the International Space Station alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin is"an incredibly important mission.
The three astronauts part of the Expedition 68 station crew will fly aboard the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft, launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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