The U.S. astronauts gave the “key” to the space station to the Russian astronauts, and everyone applauded and laughed.

May 5 – According to a report by the Russian Tas News Agency on the 4th, at a ceremony on the International Space Station, American astronaut Thomas Mashburne handed over the “key” of the space station, which symbolizes command, to Russian astronaut Oleg Atemiev.

The scene showed that when the Russian astronauts took the “key”, the astronauts present applauded and laughed collectively.

At present, the International Space Station has many astronauts from the Russian National Space Corporation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States and the European Space Agency. Four astronauts, including Thomas Marshburn, will leave the International Space Station this Thursday (May 5).