BAIKONUR (Kazakhstan), March 22Russian cosmonaut Novitsky and Belarusian cosmonaut Vasilevskaya, after the launch of their spacecraft was postponed (planned for March 21), will return from the ISS on April 6, and not on the 2nd, as was expected earlier, the Roscosmos press service told reporters.
«The return of Oleg Novitsky, Marina Vasilevskaya, as well as NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara on the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft is scheduled for April 6,» the message says.
The launch of the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, whose crew included Novitsky, Vasilevskaya and American Tracy Dyson, was planned for 16.21 Moscow time on March 21 from Baikonur. The automation canceled the flight right before takeoff, when the crew was already in the ship.
Roscosmos General Director Yuri Borisov said that the cause was a voltage drop in the chemical current source. The start was postponed to a reserve date and will take place at 15.36 Moscow time on March 23.
Due to ballistic conditions, it will not be possible to carry out an ultra-short flight and dock the spacecraft to the ISS a little over three hours after launch, as was planned for the launch on March 21. It is expected that the Soyuz MS-25 will fly according to a standard flight pattern, which takes more than two days. The docking is scheduled for 18.10 on March 25.
It was originally planned that Novitsky and Vasilevskaya would spend 12 days on the ISS and return to Earth on April 2 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 of the year. 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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