MOSCOW, April 6The Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft with Russian Oleg Novitsky, the first female cosmonaut from Belarus Marina Vasilevskaya and American Loral O'Hara returning to Earth, undocked from the ISS, as follows from the broadcast on the Roscosmos website.
After a few hours, the ship’s propulsion system should turn on and issue a braking impulse to deorbit. After this, the Soyuz MS-24 will be divided into sections, and its descent module with the cosmonauts will enter the atmosphere. Landing in the Kazakh steppe is expected at 10:18 Moscow time.
For Novitsky this was the fourth flight; O'Hara and Vasilevskaya worked in orbit for the first time. Novitsky and Vasilevskaya spent 12 days at the station, O'Hara'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 spent 204 days in space. It became the fifth spacecraft under the Roscosmos-NASA cross-flight agreement. 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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