Right now, 400 kilometres above us, above the earth's surface, orbiting at 17 and a half thousand miles per hour, or 5 miles per second, the new crew of the International Space Station are just settling in.
The team of four that make up Expedition 74 set off on Friday morning at 5.15 am, from Cape Canaveral. They are Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway from the US, Andrey Fedyaev, a Russian Cosmonaut, and Sophie Adenot, becoming the second female astronaut from France, after Claudie Haignerer 3 decades ago.
The ISS is considered the most expensive human made engineering project in history, a total cost over it's lifetime around 150 to 160 billion, and since the year for 25 years it has been continuously occupied by humans, living, working in a set of capsules in a football field sized space, pushing the boundaries of science in space.
And Sophie Adenot from Burgundy, a former helicopter pilot said she's dreamed of this moment since she was tiny, despite the slim odds of doing it, she said her family encouraged her from the off.
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Michel Tognini Former astronaut for the European Space Agency
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