KOROLEV (Moscow region), April 5The engines of the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft, on board which are Russian Oleg Novitsky, the first Belarusian Marina Vasilevskaya to be in space, and American Loral O'Hara, are turned on for braking, a correspondent reports from a broadcast at the Mission Control Center near Moscow.
Soon the Soyuz will be divided into sections, and its descent module with astronauts will enter the atmosphere. Landing in the Kazakh steppe is expected at 10.18 Moscow time.
This was Novitsky’s fourth flight; O’Hara and Vasilevskaya were in orbit for the first time. Novitsky and Vasilevskaya spent 12 days at the station, O'Hare's flight lasted 204 days. Vasilevskaya became the first woman in the history of Belarus to travel into space.
The crew of the 71st long-term expedition remains on the ISS: Russians Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and Alexander Grebenkin, Americans Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominic, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps.
Novitsky, Vasilevskaya and Dyson were delivered to the ISS by the Russian Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft on April 25, 2024. Loral O'Hara arrived at the ISS on September 15, 2023, along with Russians Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub on the Soyuz MS-24. Kononenko and Chub will spend more than a year at the station and return with Dyson on the Soyuz MS-25.
Soyuz MS-24 “worked” in space for 204 days. It became the fifth spacecraft under the agreement between Roscosmos and NASA on cross-flights. It assumes that the crew of the Russian spacecraft will send one American astronaut to the ISS, and the American crew will include one Russian cosmonaut, so that in the event of unforeseen situations, neither the Russian nor the American segments of the station are left empty.
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