WARSAW, Poland — What do a marriage necklace, Polish savory dumplings and a photograph of Hungary’s first astronaut have in widespread?
They’ll all be amongst private objects taken by astronauts journeying to the Worldwide Area Station within the spring.
The 4 members of the Axiom Mission 4 hail from the U.S., India, Hungary and Poland and can journey on Area X Crew Dragon spaceship in a joint mission by NASA and the European Area Company, ESA.
Three of the astronauts held a information convention on Wednesday and mentioned they had been having the time of their lives coaching onerous for his or her journey in addition to getting ready for the medical and technological experiments they may conduct throughout the almost two weeks they may spend there.
ESA head, Josef Aschbacher careworn that area analysis was “strategic” for a lot of causes, together with safety.
Crew members will take objects of nationwide and private significance.
Mission commander, U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson, who has wealthy expertise in area journey, is taking the necklace that she wore throughout her marriage ceremony, together with the photographs of the crew and her household.
Poland’s Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski is taking Polish conventional pierogi, or dumplings, together with poems by Wislawa Szymborska, a Literary Nobel Prize Winner, music by Frederic Chopin a bit of amber and a few salt from the historic Wieliczka salt mine. He may even have a small nationwide white-and-red flag that Poland’s first man in outer area, Miroslaw Hermaszewski wore on his go well with in 1978.
Hungarian Tibor Kapu mentioned he’ll take a photograph of Hungary’s first astronaut, Bertalan Farkas, who traveled into area in 1980, in addition to household pictures and his nation’s nationwide flag.
The mission pilot, Shubhanshu Shukla of India, couldn’t attend the media occasion, held on the in style Copernicus Science Heart in Warsaw.