The crew includes Russian Konstantin Borisov, American Jasmine Mogbeli, Dane Andreas Mogensen and Japanese Satoshi Furukawa
TASS-DOSSIER. On August 26, 2023, at 10:27 Moscow time, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 launch vehicle with a Crew Dragon manned spacecraft from the Cape Canaveral cosmodrome (Florida, USA). The ship is supposed to deliver four Crew-7 mission participants to the International Space Station (ISS). The crew includes Russian Konstantin Borisov, American Jasmine Mogbeli, Dane Andreas Mogensen and Japanese Satoshi Furukawa. TASS has prepared a material about the Crew-7 mission.
Cross flights
Elon Musk's SpaceX company, under contract with the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), has been delivering crews to the ISS on its ship since 2020.
In July 2022 Roscosmos and NASA have signed an agreement on cross-flights to the ISS - Russian cosmonauts on American Crew Dragon, American astronauts on Russian Soyuz MS spacecraft. The negotiations, which have been conducted since 2021, were not prevented by the tightening of sanctions against Russia, which followed the start of a special military operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine in February 2022. The agreement implied the implementation of six flights in 2022-2024 with the participation of three Russians and three Americans. In 2023, the program was expanded to one mission: in the first half of 2024, Russian cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin will fly to the ISS as part of the crew of Crew-8. As explained in Roscosmos, the implementation of the agreement allows for the cancellation or significant delay of the launch of a Russian or American spacecraft to ensure the presence of at least one Roscosmos cosmonaut and one NASA astronaut on board the orbital station. Due to damage to the Soyuz MS-22, which delivered Sergei Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin and American Frank Rubio to the ISS in September 2022 (they arrived at the station as part of the ISS-68 expedition), Russia postponed the launch of the crew of the next expedition (planned for March 2023). The flight of Prokopyev, Petelin and Rubio was extended for another six months (they are currently working on the ISS-69 program). Now the crew will return to Earth in September on Soyuz MS-23, which was launched to the ISS in February 2023 in unmanned mode. For safety reasons, Soyuz MS-22 was taken out of orbit without a crew in March 2023 (only cargo was in its descent vehicle).
Konstantin Borisov became the fourth participant in the cross-flight program and the third Russian cosmonaut - a crew member of the Crew Dragon spacecraft. First, in September 2022, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio (as part of the ISS-68 crew) was delivered to the station on Soyuz MS-22. In October 2022, Anna Kikina (a member of the Crew-5 mission) was the first Russian cosmonaut to launch on Crew Dragon. In March 2023, Andrey Fedyaev (a member of the Crew-6 mission) arrived at the ISS on Crew Dragon.
Crew-7 Mission
It is expected that the Crew Dragon ship will dock to the ISS the next day - August 27. After the transfer to the station, Konstantin Borisov, Jasmine Mogbeli, Andreas Mogensen and Satoshi Furukawa will join Russian cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin (who have been on the ISS since September 2022), Andrey Fedyaev (since March 2023), American astronauts Frank Rubio (since September 2022), Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg (both since March 2023), as well as UAE astronaut Sultan al-Neyadi (since March 2023).
According to the plans, the crew of the Crew-7 mission will stay on the ISS for about six months.
Crew
Jasmine Mogbeli (USA) is a NASA astronaut, commander of the Crew-7 mission. She was born on June 24, 1983 in Bad Nauheim (Germany) in a family of Iranian immigrants. Spent her childhood and graduated from high school in Baldwin (state New York, USA). At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, State Massachusetts) received a Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering and Information Technology from the Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, State California) - Master's degree in Aerospace engineering. Graduated from the U.S. Navy Test Pilot School in Patuxent River (Maryland). She served in the US Marine Corps: first, as a naval pilot, she flew light and medium attack helicopters, then she was a test pilot. Participated in the US military operation "Enduring Freedom" in Afghanistan (2009-2010). She completed more than 150 sorties, mastered more than 25 types of aircraft, flew 2,000 hours. Since 2017 - in the NASA astronaut squad. Prior to the launch of the Crew-7 mission, she had no experience of space flights. Awarded medals of the US Air Force and Navy.
Andreas Mogensen (Denmark) is an astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA), pilot of Crew-7. Born on November 2, 1976 in Copenhagen (Denmark). In 1995, he graduated from the Copenhagen International School with a bachelor's degree. In 1999, he received a Master's degree in aeronautical engineering from Imperial College in London (UK), and a doctorate in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas (USA) in 2007. In 2000-2001, he worked at the oilfield services company Schlumberger as an engineer for the repair and maintenance of drilling rigs on offshore oil platforms in the Congo and Angola. In 2001-2003, he was an engineer of the research department at the Danish company Vestas Wind Systems. In 2004-2007, he was a researcher at the Space Research Center and a teaching assistant at the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Texas. In 2007-2008, he was a specialist in spacecraft orientation systems at HE Space Operations (Germany). Then he was a researcher at the Surrey Space Center (Great Britain). Since 2009 - in the ESA astronaut squad. Previously, he made one orbital flight lasting 9 days, 20 hours and 13 minutes. On September 2-12, 2015, he was a member of the 18th expedition to visit the ISS on a Russian ship (he started on Soyuz TMA-18M, returned on Soyuz TMA-16M), became the first astronaut of Denmark. In 2016-2022, he worked at NASA's Lyndon Johnson Space Research Center in Houston (Texas).
Satoshi Furukawa (Japan) is an astronaut of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), a Crew-7 flight specialist. Born on April 4, 1964 in Yokagama (Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan). In 1989, he received a Doctor of medicine degree from the University of Tokyo, and in 2000 he received a PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) degree in medical sciences there. He worked at the University of Tokyo Hospital and related hospitals, engaged in clinical medicine and research in the field of gastrointestinal surgery. Since 1999 - in the JAXA astronaut squad. Previously, he made one orbital flight lasting 167 days, 6 hours and 12 minutes. In June - November 2011, he was a flight engineer of the 28th and 29th main expeditions to the ISS (he started and returned on the Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft). In 2014-2021, he headed the JAXA Space Biomedical Research Group.
Konstantin Borisov (Russia) - Roscosmos cosmonaut, Crew-7 flight specialist. Prior to the launch of the mission, he had no experience of space flights. Born on August 14, 1984 in Smolensk in the family of test pilot Hero of the Russian Federation Sergey Georgievich Borisov (1958-2021). Subsequently, the family moved to Zhukovsky, where Borisov graduated from secondary school No. 3 with an in-depth study of English.
In 2005, he received a bachelor's degree in Economics from the Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics (now the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Moscow), in 2007 - a Master's degree in Operations Research and Systems Analysis from the University of Warwick (Coventry, UK). In 2018, he graduated with honors from the Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University), became a master in the direction of "designing life support systems for aircraft".
In the period from 2005 to 2018, he held various positions (analyst, consultant, project manager, department head) in commercial companies: Volvo Vostok (Khimki, Moscow region), Moscow representative office of AT Kearney GmbH (Germany), "Boston Consulting Group (Moscow) Limited", LLC "Ferronordic Machines" (a subsidiary of the Swedish dealer of special equipment Ferronordic; Khimki, Moscow region).
In 2017-2018, Borisov took part in the second open competition for the selection of candidates for the cosmonaut squad of the Roscosmos State Corporation. On September 26, 2018, he was appointed as a candidate for test cosmonauts. After completing the general space training course at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, on December 2, 2020, he was awarded the qualification of "test cosmonaut".
Since January 11, 2021, he has been a test cosmonaut of the Roscosmos detachment.
March 1, 2023 Roscosmos, in accordance with the agreement on cross-flights with NASA, decided to include Borisov in the crew of the Crew Dragon spacecraft as part of the Crew-7 mission.
Borisov has the title of "Honorary Donor of Russia".
He is fond of freediving (since 2006) and open water swimming (since 2013). In 2015 and 2016, he was a member of the judging panel of the World Freediving Championship. In July 2018, he swam across the Strait of Gibraltar, swimming 15 km from the coast of Spain to the coast of Morocco in 3 hours and 45 minutes without stopping.
