KOROLEV (Moscow region), March 25The docking of the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft to the International Space Station took place automatically, exactly according to the program, Roscosmos executive director Sergei Krikalev told reporters.
«The docking took place normally in the automatic machine. The crew controlled the process. The automatic machine docked the ship to the station exactly according to the program, so everything took place normally,» Krikalev said after the Soyuz docked with the ISS.
The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft docked with the Russian module of the ISS Prichal at 18.03 Moscow time on Monday. On it, Russian Oleg Novitsky, the first female cosmonaut in the history of Belarus, Marina Vasilevskaya, and American Tracy Dyson, arrived at the station.
The rocket with the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft launched on March 23 at 15.36 Moscow time from Baikonur, the flight took a little more than two days. The crew of the Soyuz MS-25 included Russian Oleg Novitsky, Belarusian Marina Vasilevskaya and American Tracy Dyson. Vasilevskaya became the first woman in the history of Belarus to travel into space.
Initially, the launch of the ship was planned for 16.21 Moscow time on March 21 from Baikonur. The automation canceled the flight 20 seconds before launch, when the crew was already in the ship. The cause was a voltage drop in the chemical current source. The start was postponed to Saturday.
Novitsky and Vasilevskaya will return to Earth on April 6 after 12 days on the station. They will descend to Earth 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.
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