Overview
- After two years and nine months of preparation, she gave her final European press briefing at ESA’s Cologne center and took part in the traditional tree-planting send‑off.
- She is slated to fly on a SpaceX Crew Dragon with commander Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, and Russia’s Andrei Fediaïe for an expedition scheduled to begin 15 February.
- On orbit, her work will span laboratory research, plumbing and electrical maintenance, robotics to berth cargo craft, and a potential spacewalk.
- One study will train her to operate an ultrasound system using augmented reality and artificial intelligence, with the goal of enabling non‑experts to perform scans that could benefit underserved communities on Earth.
- She emphasized the ISS as a durable multinational partnership and noted that Russian participation has continued despite the war in Ukraine.