Nothing seems to mar the excitement of Kjell Lindgren, not even three successive rocket explosions. This NASA astronaut is eager to fly for a five-month tour to the International Space Station (ISS), unperturbed about the rocket failures over the past several months.

The perils of space flight are hardly able to tarnish the zeal that Astronaut Lindgren possesses. Lindgren is scheduled to fly the Russian Soyuz rocket for ISS on July 22. The mission would ferry three astronauts to the station: Lindgren, Sergey Volkov of Russia and Kimiya Yui of Japan.

The enthusiastic Lindgren stated on Tuesday that he was excited to fly, eager to experience weightlessness, and see Earth from a distance.

Lindgren, who will be the flight engineer on this space station mission passionately stated,” The posture I’ve adopted is, we’re confident. The training has been fantastic. I have spent about two and a half years learning all of the pieces that I’ll need to be successful in space”.

NASA has been reported of actively working with the Russian counterparts in order to figure out the reasons for the recent crashes and to resolve all glitches before Lindgren is allowed to fly.

Prior failures of the rockets have been witnessed; the just recent SpaceX Falcon 9 explosion last month, the debacle of the Progress 59 mission in April and the Orbital ATK Antares rocket which blew up last year has got NASA to ardently check its space flight capacities

However, the success of the Russian unmanned Progress 60 last week might have helped NASA to regain some of its wavering confidence.