The Soyuz MS-24 rocket with one NASA astronaut and two Roscosmos cosmonauts aboard launch toward the International Space Station. Credit: NASA TELEVISION
On September 27, Rubio, Petelin, and Prokopyev will return to Earth on the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft. The trio has actually been aboard the orbital laboratory given that getting here on September 21, 2022.
The Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft with NASA astronaut Loral OHara and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub aboard approaches the space station for a docking. Credit: NASA TELEVISION
NASA astronaut Loral OHara and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub on the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft docked to the International Space Station (ISS) at 2:53 p.m. EDT while the station was taking a trip 260 miles over Ukraine, south of Kyiv. The spacecraft released from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan 3 hours earlier at 11:44 a.m. EDT (8:44 p.m. Baikonur time).
The hatches between the ISS and the newly arrived Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft officially opened at 5:16 p.m. EDT. The arrival of 3 new crew members to the existing 7 individuals already aboard for Expedition 69 briefly increases the stations population to 10.
Front row from left are, Roscosmos cosmonauts Konstantin Borisov, Nikolai Chub, and Oleg Kononenko, and NASA astronaut Loral OHara. In the back are, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, cosmonauts Dmitri Petelin and Sergey Prokopyev, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, and JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa.
NASA astronaut Loral OHara and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub joined the spaceport stations Expedition 69 team of NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Frank Rubio, Roscosmos cosmonauts Dmitri Petelin, Konstantin Borisov, and Sergey Prokopyev, too ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa. OHara will spend 6 months aboard the orbital lab, while Kononenko and Chub will both spend one year on the orbital station.
Front row from left are, Roscosmos cosmonauts Konstantin Borisov, Nikolai Chub, and Oleg Kononenko, and NASA astronaut Loral OHara. In the back are, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, cosmonauts Dmitri Petelin and Sergey Prokopyev, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, and JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa. Credit: NASA TV