Three crew members together with NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson efficiently launched at 8:36 a.m. EDT Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the Worldwide Area Station.
Dyson, alongside along with her crewmates Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, will dock to the house station’s Prichal module about 11:09 a.m. on Monday, March 25, on the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft.
Docking protection will start at 10:15 a.m. on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company’s web site. NASA additionally will air protection, beginning at 1:15 p.m., of the crew welcome ceremony on NASA+ as soon as they’re aboard the orbital outpost. Discover ways to stream NASA TV by way of a wide range of platforms together with social media.
When the hatches between the station and the Soyuz open about 1:40 p.m., the brand new crew members will be part of NASA astronauts Loral O’Hara, Matthew Dominick, Mike Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, and Alexander Grebenkin, already residing and dealing aboard the house station.
Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya shall be aboard the station for 12 days, earlier than offering the experience house for O’Hara on Saturday, April 6, aboard Soyuz MS-24 for a parachute-assisted touchdown on steppe of Kazakhstan.
Dyson will spend six months aboard the station as an Expedition 70 and 71 flight engineer, returning to Earth in September with Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub of Roscosmos, who will full a year-long mission on the laboratory.
This would be the third spaceflight for Dyson, the fourth for Novitskiy, and the primary for Vasilevskaya.
Study extra about house station actions at:
https://www.nasa.gov/station
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Joshua Finch
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Sandra Jones
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