MOSCOW, January 19 Launch of the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, Belarusian cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya, who will become the first woman to go into space in the history of sovereign Belarus, and American Tracy Dyson to the International Space Station will take place on March 21, the Roscosmos press service reported.
“The launch of the Soyuz-2.1a rocket with the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft from the 31st site of the Baikonur Cosmodrome is planned for March 21, 2024,” the agency’s interlocutor said.
The first Russian launch under the ISS program will take place on February 15, 2024, the Progress MS-26 cargo ship will depart for the station. In addition to the launch of Soyuz MS-25, the landing of Soyuz MS-24, currently docked to the ISS, is planned in the spring.
Novitsky and Vasilevskaya will spend 12 days on the ISS and return to Earth on the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft, now docked to the station, together with the American Loral O'Hara, who arrived on it on September 15, 2023. Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub who arrived with her will spend more than a year at the station and return with Dyson on the Soyuz MS-25.
The backup crew of the Soyuz MS-25 includes Russian Ivan Vagner, Belarusian Anastasia Lenkova and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit.
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