NASA Astronaut Preflight Jacket Soyuz MS-22 Expedition 68

Beautiful black and grey color combination jacket on zipper. Soyuz on launch depicted on the font of the jacket, International Space station on the back. On the sleeves attached printed patches of Soyuz MS-22 emblem, flag and nametag. Hook-and-loop fastener attached to the back of each patch.

Francisco Rubio is a US Army lieutenant colonel US Army lieutenant colonel and helicopter pilot, flight surgeon and NASA astronaut.

In 2017, Rubio was selected as a member of NASA Astronaut group 22, and began his two-year training.

On July 15, 2022, NASA announced he will fly on board Soyuz MS-22.

Rubio launched aboard Soyuz MS-22 on September 21, 2022.

Information about Soyuz MS-22 mission

Soyuz MS-22 is a Russian Soyuz spaceflight to ISS with a crew of three launched from Baikonur on 21 September 2022.

The launch was previously planned for 13 September 2022, but in the provisional flight manifest prepared by Roscosmos by the end of Summer 2020, the launch of Soyuz MS-22 was delayed to 21 September 2022, for a mission length of 188 days.

The mission was planned before 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, however, continued international collaboration around the ISS has been thrown into doubt by the ongoing event and related sanctions on Russia.

The original three-Russian member crew was named in May 2021. American astronaut Fransicso Rubio replaced Anna Kikina as a part of the Soyuz-Dragon crew swap system of keeping at least one NASA astronaut and one Roscosmos cosmonaut on each of the crew rotation missions. This ensures both countries have a presence on the station, and the ability to maintain their separate systems if either Soyuz or commercial crew vehicles are grounded for an extended period.

The Soyuz capsule is named in honor of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.

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