Soyuz Ms-24 launched with two Russians and one American

The Russian Soyuz MS-24 shuttle launched from the Russian base in Baikonur (Kazakhstan), headed to the Worldwide Area Station. On board there are cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, from the Russian area company Roscosmos and who will each work for a yr on the ISS, and the American Loral O’Hara, from NASA, for a six-month mission. It’s the first Soyuz launch with a crew since September 2022.

The final launch of a Russian shuttle with a crew was in truth that of the Soyuz Ms-22, the identical wherein in December of the identical yr a leak of coolant was detected which made it dangerous to make use of it to convey astronauts again to Earth they’d used it on the outward journey, specifically the Russians Dimitri Petelin and Sergey Prokopyev and the American Frank Rubio. Because of this, final February the Russian area company launched one other shuttle with out astronauts on board, the Soyuz-M23, and had the Soyuz Ms-22 return to Earth with no crew.

Docking to the Area Station is scheduled for 8.56pm Italian time and roughly two hours later it is going to be potential to open the hatches and the brand new ISS crew will likely be full. There will likely be ten on board as a result of the three from the Soyuz Ms-24 will likely be welcomed by Commander Sergey Prokopyev along with his Russian colleagues Konstantin Borisov and Dmitri Petelin, Andreas Mogensen of the European Area Company, destined to grow to be the following commander of the ISS, the American Frank Rubio of NASA, Satoshi Furukawa of the Japanese area company Jaxa and Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates) and the Russians.

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