Soyuz MS-25 rocket to be relaunched at Baikonur to deliver crew to ISS

Science & Space March 23, 2024, 6:16

The ship will fly to the International Space Station for approximately two days

BAIKONUR COSMODROME /KAZAKHSTAN/, March 23. /TASS/. The Baikonur Cosmodrome will host a re-launch of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle carrying the Soyuz MS-25 manned spacecraft. According to Roscosmos, the ship will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) for approximately two days.

The launch was scheduled for March 21 at 16:21 Moscow time, however it was automatically canceled just a few seconds before. Soyuz-2.1a will re-launch at 15:36 Moscow time. The voyage to the ISS will be a two-day rendezvous; the ship is scheduled to dock with the Prichal universal hub module in the Russian portion of the station on March 25 at 18:10 Moscow time.

Soyuz MS-25 will carry the crew of the 21st ISS visiting expedition to the station. The main crew consists of Belarussian Marina Vasilevskaya, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, and NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson.

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