Soyuz launches 3 new crew members to ISS on its 71st flight – Interesting Engineering

Posted: March 24, 2024 at 4:42 pm

A multinational crew of three successfully blasted off to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft on Saturday, March 23. The crew includes an experienced NASA astronaut, a veteran cosmonaut, and a Belarusian spaceflight participant.

The launch occurred from the historic Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan the same launchpad where Yuri Gagarin made history as the first human in space. After a two-day journey in orbit, the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft is set to dock with the ISSs Prichal module.

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