The Soyuz MS-25 space capsule docked with the International Space Station on Monday. A Russian cosmonaut and two astronauts from the US and Belarus left Kazakhstan in Central Asia on Saturday.
“Oleg Novitsky, Marina Vasilevskaya and Tracy Dyson have arrived at the station,” the Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Monday. This mission marked the first time that two women flew aboard a Soyuz capsule to humanity’s outpost 250 miles above Earth. There was only one female duo during a return from the ISS. The flight was also a first for Belarus, an ally of Russia. 33-year-old cosmonaut Vasilevskaya, who works as a flight attendant at the state-owned company Belavia, is the first woman in her country to fly into space.
Start aborted on first attempt
The original start was scheduled two days earlier, but had to be unexpectedly canceled 20 seconds before ignition due to a technical problem.
According to Roscosmos, Vasilevskaya and Novitsky will return to Earth on April 6 with the American Loral O’Hara, who has been on the ISS since September last year. Astronaut Dyson will remain on the ISS until September and then begin the journey home with cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Tschub.
Despite the Russian war against Ukraine and American sanctions, international cooperation in space continues. American astronauts regularly fly to the ISS and vice versa on Russian spacecraft.
Source: Krone
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