CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — A NASA astronaut and two others will be leaving for the International Space Station from Kazakhstan on Thursday morning.
What You Need To Know
- The launch window opens at 9:21 a.m. EDT
- The liftoff will happen from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
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NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus will be taking the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft (launched from a Soyuz-2.1a rocket), to head to the floating laboratory. Both vehicles belong the Russia space agency Roscosmos.
The launch window opens at 9:21 a.m. EDT and the trio will be lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
“Dyson, Novitskiy, and Vasilevskaya will journey to the station on a two-orbit, three-hour trajectory that will result in a docking to the station’s Prichal module at 12:39 p.m.,” explained NASA.
The hatches of the three-seater Soyuz and the ISS should open at around 2:50 p.m. ET, Thursday, NASA stated.
Dyson will spend six months aboard the ISS as the flight engineer for Expedition 70 and 71, while Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya will spend 12 days on the ISS before returning home on Tuesday, April 2, in Kazakhstan.
An expedition means the current crew in the International Space Station.
Novitskiy is the crew commander and Vasilevskaya is a flight engineer.
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