Soyuz MS-24
Names | ISS 70S |
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Mission type | ISS crew transport |
Operator | Roscosmos |
COSPAR ID | 2023-143A |
SATCAT no. | 57862 |
Mission duration | 203 days, 15 hours, 33 minutes and 12 seconds |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Soyuz MS-25 No. 755 |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz MS |
Manufacturer | Energia |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 |
Members | Loral O'Hara |
Launching | |
Landing | |
Callsign | Antares |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 15 September 2023, 15:44:35 UTC |
Rocket | Soyuz 2.1a |
Launch site | Baikonur, Site 31/6 |
Contractor | Progress |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 6 April 2024, 07:17:47 UTC |
Landing site | Kazakh Steppe, Kazakhstan (47°25′6.12″N 69°38′56.22″E / 47.4183667°N 69.6489500°E) |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Inclination | 51.659° |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | Rassvet nadir |
Docking date | 15 September 2023, 18:53:32 UTC |
Undocking date | 6 April 2024, 03:54:58 UTC |
Time docked | 203 days, 9 hours, 1 minute and 26 seconds |
Mission patches: launch (left) and landing (right) Top: launching crew, from left: O'Hara, Kononenko and Chub Bottom: landing crew, from left: O'Hara, Novitsky and Vasilevskaya |
Soyuz MS-24, Russian production No. 755 and identified by NASA as Soyuz 70S, was a Russian crewed Soyuz spaceflight launched from Baikonur on 15 September 2023 to the International Space Station.[1]
Crew
[edit]They were originally assigned to Soyuz MS-23 mission, but they were moved to MS-24 due to a coolant leak on Soyuz MS-22 that required MS-23 to be launched uncrewed as its replacement. Oleg Kononenko is assigned for a one year long mission with his MS-24 crewmate Nikolai Chub that started on September 15, 2023. As the mission lasts 374 days, Kononenko will have spent a total of 1,111 days in space. He exceeded the previous record of 878 days held by Gennady Padalka on 4 February 2024. He later became the first person to stay 900 and 1,000 days in space on 25 February 2024 and 4 June 2024.
Position | Launching crew member | Landing crew member |
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Commander | Oleg Kononenko, Roscosmos Expedition 69/70/71 Fifth spaceflight |
Oleg Novitsky, Roscosmos 21st Visiting Expedition Fourth spaceflight |
Flight Engineer/ Spaceflight Participant | Nikolai Chub, Roscosmos Expedition 69/70/71 First spaceflight |
Marina Vasilevskaya, Belarus Space Agency[2] 21st Visiting Expedition First spaceflight |
Flight Engineer | Loral O'Hara, NASA Expedition 69/70 First spaceflight |
Position | Crew member | |
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Commander | Aleksey Ovchinin, Roscosmos | |
Flight Engineer | Tracy Caldwell-Dyson, NASA[3] |
Undocking and Return
[edit]After completing her expedition, O'Hara returned to Earth on 6 April 2024 with Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and Belarusian spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya (both on ISS EP-21) on the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft. On the other hand, Kononenko and Chub will remain aboard the ISS orbital laboratory for about one year and return with NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell-Dyson on the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft. As the mission lasts 374 days, Kononenko will have spent a total of 1,111 days in space. He exceeded the previous record of 878 days held by Gennady Padalka on 4 February 2024. He later became the first person to stay 900 and 1,000 days in space on 25 February 2024 and 4 June 2024 respectively.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Zak, Anatoly (13 February 2023). "Space exploration in 2023". RussianSpaceWeb. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ^ "Belarusian female astronaut to go ISS in March 2024 — Roscosmos". TASS. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
- ^ Imgur. "imgur.com". Imgur. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
- ^ "Better Late Than Never: New ISS Crew Prepares to Fly, All-Female EVAs Possible in October – AmericaSpace". www.americaspace.com. 10 September 2023. Retrieved 19 September 2023.