Our Crew-7 mission will take our four crew members
to the International Space Station, which is
think of it as an orbiting laboratory around the Earth.
In the broadest sense,
Crew-7 and Expedition 70 is about the exploration of space
because a lot of the science and technology development
that we do onboard the space station not only benefits future missions
to the Moon and Mars, but it also benefits humanity and it benefits the Earth.
The main topic of our work is always science.
So we have numerous scientific projects and scientific experiments
which we are part of.
We're doing science and research
on ourselves, our human bodies and how we react in space
so that we can eventually go further in the solar system.
Using the long lasting microgravity environment
onboard the International Space Station, which we cannot obtain on the ground,
we can perform many scientific research
that makes our life on Earth better.
Well, with my international upbringing,
I'm especially proud of the fact that our Crew-7 mission
has four different astronauts from four different countries.
And it's just something really special
when you think about we've all come from very different backgrounds.
We have different cultures
and different traditions, but we share those with each other.
Working as a team,
we can back up each other and accomplish the mission easily.
And I hope that this is something which can show the world
how we can achieve big things when we cooperate and we work together.
It's a human being's instinct to broaden our boundaries.
Humans have always wanted to push the boundaries.
We're curious beings.
We want to know what is out there.
We want to see what's behind that hill.
We want to see what's behind that sea.
We want to see what's behind that planet.
Every time we've explored in the past,
it has been beneficial to humans and to humankind.
We always learn and develop technologies that help us.
We learn more about our home planet.
We travel out into space to gather knowledge,
to expand our understanding of our world and the universe,
and return that knowledge to the Earth, to humanity, for the benefit of us all.