3 team members consisting of NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson effectively went for 8:36 a.m. EDT Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station.
Dyson, together with her crewmates Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and spaceflight individual Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, will dock to the spaceport station’s Prichal module about 11:09 a.m. on Monday, March 25, on the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft.
Docking protection will start at 10:15 a.m. on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, and the firm’s site. NASA likewise will air protection, beginning at 1:15 p.m., of the team welcome event on NASA+ as soon as they are aboard the orbital station. Find out how to stream NASA television through a range of platforms consisting of social networks.
When the hatches in between the station and the Soyuz open about 1:40 p.m., the brand-new team members will sign up with NASA astronauts Loral O’Hara, Matthew Dominick, Mike Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, and Alexander Grebenkin, currently living and working aboard the spaceport station.
Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya will be aboard the station for 12 days, before offering the trip home for O’Hara on Saturday, April 6, aboard Soyuz MS-24 for a parachute-assisted landing on steppe of Kazakhstan.
Dyson will invest 6 months aboard the station as an Expedition 70 and 71 flight engineer, going back to Earth in September with Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub of Roscosmos, who will finish a year-long objective on the lab.
This will be the 3rd spaceflight for Dyson, the 4th for Novitskiy, and the very first for Vasilevskaya.
Discover more about spaceport station activities at:
https://www.nasa.gov/station
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Joshua Finch
Head office, Washington
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joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov
Sandra Jones
Johnson Space Center, Houston
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sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov
