Armenian cosmonaut to join SpaceX Crew-14 mission to ISS PHOTO

A four-person SpaceX Crew-14 crew is scheduled to travel to the International Space Station (ISS) in spring 2027 under the command of astronaut Kayla Barron, Infoteka24 reports.

Roscosmos cosmonaut Arutyun Kiviryan will be part of the mission, gosspace reported, citing data from NASA.

The flight will be SpaceX’s 14th commercial crewed mission under NASA’s strategy for developing low Earth orbit, according to the report.

The Crew-14 mission will focus on scientific experiments and testing advanced technologies.

For Kiviryan, it will be his first flight to the ISS. He graduated from the Suvorov Military School in St. Petersburg and received a degree in rocket engineering from the Baltic State Technical University in 2015.

In 2021, he was selected for the cosmonaut corps at the Yuri Gagarin Research and Cosmonaut Training Centre, the publication reported.

By Aghakazim Guliyev