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Friday, September 15, 2023
Expedition 70 Soyuz Rocket Launch in Kazakhstan | International Space Station
Expedition 70 Soyuz Rocket Launch in Kazakhstan | International Space Station
NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko (Олег Кононенко) and Nikolai Chub (Николай Чуб) of Russia are safely in orbit aboard the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft after launching on a Russian Soyuz 2.1a launch vehicle at 11:44 a.m. EDT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (8:44 p.m. Baikonur time). The Soyuz spacecraft will dock to the International Space Station’s Rassvet module at 2:56 p.m EDT. A short time after docking, hatches between the Soyuz and the station will open.
NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara will begin a six-month mission aboard the station, and Kononenko and Chub will both spend a year on the orbital outpost. This is the first spaceflight for O'Hara.
An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.
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