A cosmonaut, who is the only Russian to board an American spacecraft amid global tensions over the war in Ukraine, is launching to the (ISS) aboard a rocket in a mission that is the first to be led by a female commander.Russia's Anna Kikina switched places with a astronaut who took her seat aboard a Russian Soyuz flight to the ISS last month under a new ride-sharing deal signed by NASA and Roscosmos in July.Kikina joins Nicole Aunapu Mann, the first indigenous woman to ever launch into space and the first female to take the commander's seat of a SpaceX Crew Dragon - NASA's Josh Cassada and the Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Koichi Wakata are also part of the historic Crew-5.
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