A Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station carrying NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Roscosmos astronaut Oleg Novitsky, and Belarusian space flight participant Marina Vasilevskaya, Saturday, March 23, 2024, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
NASA astronaut Tracy C Dyson, Roscosmos Cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and Belarusian space flight participant Marina Vasilevskaya were successfully launched to the International Space Station from Kazakhstan.
Three crew members including NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson launched successfully at 8:36 a.m EDT On Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to International Space Station (International Space Station). The mission was scheduled to launch on March 21, but this launch was canceled due to an electrical problem.
Dyson, along with fellow Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya, a flight attendant from Belarus, will dock with the space station's Pritschal module at approximately 11:09 a.m. on Monday, March 25, aboard the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft.
Anchorage coverage will begin at 10:15 a.m NASA+NASA TV, NASA application, Youtubeand the agency website. NASA will also provide aerial coverage, starting at 1:15 p.m., of the crew reception NASA+ Once they are aboard the orbital outpost. Learn how NASA TV stream Through a variety of platforms including social media.
When the hatches between the station and the Soyuz spacecraft open around 1:40 p.m., the new crew members will join NASA astronauts Loral O'Hara, Matthew Dominick, Mike Barratt, and Janet Epps, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub. And Alexander Grebenkin actually lives and works aboard the space station.
Novitsky and Vasilevskaya will be on board the station for 12 days, before providing a return flight to O'Hara on Saturday, April 6, aboard a Soyuz MS-24 for a parachute-assisted landing on the Kazakh steppes.
Dyson will spend six months aboard the station on Expedition 70 and 71 EngineerHe will return to Earth in September with Roscosmos' Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, who will complete a year-long mission at the laboratory.
This will be Dyson's third spaceflight, Novitsky's fourth, and Vasilevskaya's first.