The manned spacecraft Soyuz MS-25, which was launched last weekend from the Baikonur Cosmodrome using the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle, docked to the Prichal universal node module of the Russian segment of the International Space Station. The TASS news agency writes about this with reference to data from the Mission Control Center.
The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft delivered to the orbital station the crew of the 21st visiting expedition, which included cosmonaut of the Roscosmos state corporation Oleg Novitsky, representative of the Republic of Belarus Marina Vasilevskaya, as well as an astronaut of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) USA Tracy Dyson. Novitsky and Vasilevskaya will remain on the ISS for 12 days and return to Earth on April 6 on the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft together with NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara. Tracy Dyson will remain on the orbital station until September and will return to Earth along with Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub.
It was originally planned that the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft would launch into outer space on March 21. At this time, ballistic conditions made it possible to fly to the ISS using an ultra-short two-orbit scheme in just 3.5 hours. However, a few seconds before the launch, the launch was automatically canceled, and the mission was postponed to Saturday. Because of this, the rendezvous pattern also changed, due to which the ship’s crew took two days to reach the ISS.
It should be noted that Marina Vasilevskaya became the first citizen of Belarus to reach outer space. At the orbital station she will conduct five scientific studies and two works in the field of medicine, biology, physiology and remote sensing of the Earth. Vasilevskaya will conduct spectral video and photography of the Earth’s surface, as well as the Lactoferrin and Hurricane experiments.
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