The Soyuz rocket launches to the Worldwide Area Station with Expedition 71 NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya, onboard, Saturday, March 23, 2024, on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit score: NASA/Invoice IngallsNASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarusian spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya launched efficiently to the ISS from Kazakhstan.Three crew members together with NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson efficiently launched at 8:36 a.m. EDT on Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the Worldwide Area Station (ISS). The mission was scheduled to liftoff on March 21, however that launch was scrubbed on account of {an electrical} problem.Dyson, alongside together with her crewmates Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya, a flight attendant from Belarus, will dock to the area station’s Prichal module at 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. Learn to stream NASA TV by means 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 a 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 dwelling and dealing aboard the area station.Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya might be aboard the station for 12 days, earlier than offering the trip house for O’Hara on Saturday, April 6, aboard Soyuz MS-24 for a parachute-assisted touchdown on the 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.