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  • A Soyuz capsule carrying 3 crew from the International Space Station lands safely in Kazakhstan

    A Soyuz capsule carrying 3 crew from the International Space Station lands safely in Kazakhstan

    MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian space capsule with two women and one man safely landed in a steppe in Kazakhstan on Saturday after their missions aboard the International Space Station.

    The Soyuz MS-24 carrying Russia’s Oleg Novitsky, NASA’s Loral O’Hara and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus touched down southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan at 12:17 p.m. Kazakh time (0717 GMT).

    Those remaining at the orbiting outpost are NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Tracy Dyson and Jeannette Epps as well as Russian cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin and Oleg Kononenko.

    O’Hara arrived at the International Space Station on Sept. 15, 2023, spending a total of 204 days there, NASA said.

    Novitsky and Vasilevskaya blasted off to space on March 23, two days later than initially planned. The launch of a Soyuz spacecraft carrying them and NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, scheduled for March 21, was aborted at the very last minute due to a voltage drop in a power source, according to Yury Borisov, head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos.

    The delay resulted in a two-day, 34-orbit trip to the space station for the crew. If the launch had gone as scheduled, the journey would have been much shorter, requiring only two orbits.

    The space station, which has served as a symbol of post-Cold War international cooperation, is now one of the last remaining areas of collaboration between Russia and the West amid tensions over Moscow’s military action in Ukraine. NASA and its partners hope to continue operating the orbiting outpost until 2030.

    Russia has continued to rely on modified versions of Soviet-designed rockets for commercial satellites, as well as crews and cargo to the space station.

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  • 3 astronauts aboard Russia’s Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft arrive at International Space Station

    3 astronauts aboard Russia’s Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft arrive at International Space Station

    March 25 (UPI) — Three astronauts on board Russia’s Soyuz MS-25 made it safely to the International Space Station nearly 250 miles above earth after a nearly two-day orbital journey.

    The spacecraft — which carried NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy — docked at 11:03 a.m. EDT after a 50 hour trip from Kazakhstan, a former Soviet satellite state south of Russia that borders China.

    Joining them at the space station are seven other crew members of Expedition 70 who already are in orbit.

    Dyson is expected to spend the next six months as a flight engineer before her return in September accompanied by cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub of Roscosmos, who will have ended their year-long space missions, according to NASA.

    But Novitskiy, whose fourth flight to space this was, and Vasilevskaya who is now on her first, will be in space for just 12 days.

    Expedition 70 crew member NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara smiles prior to boarding the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft for launch to the International Space Station with fellow crewmates Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko in September at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. NASA Photo by Bill Ingalls/UPI

    Expedition 70 crew member NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara smiles prior to boarding the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft for launch to the International Space Station with fellow crewmates Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko in September at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. NASA Photo by Bill Ingalls/UPI

    The two newly-arrived astronauts will return to earth in a parachute-assisted landing at a Kazakh base along with NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, who will have had 204 days in space by the time she lands.

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