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March 23, 2024 RELEASE: 24-044 NASA Astronaut Tracy Dyson,
Crewmates Safely En Route to Space Station
The Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 71 NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy,
and Belarus spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya, onboard, Saturday, March 23, 2024, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA/Bill Ingalls Three crew members including NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson successfully launched
at 8:36 a.m. EDT Saturday
from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
to the International Space Station. Dyson, along with her crewmates Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus,
will dock to the space station’s Prichal module about 11:09 a.m. on Monday, March 25,
on the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft.
Docking coverage will begin at 10:15 a.m. on
NASA+, NASA Television, the
NASA app,
YouTube,
and the agency’s website. NASA also will air coverage, starting at 1:15 p.m.,
of the crew welcome ceremony on NASA+
once they are aboard the orbital outpost. Learn how to
stream NASA TV through a variety of platforms including social media. When the hatches between the station and the Soyuz open about 1:40 p.m., the new crew members will join NASA astronauts
Loral O’Hara, Matthew Dominick, Mike Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, and Alexander Grebenkin, already living and working aboard the space station. Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya will be aboard the station for 12 days, before providing the ride home for O’Hara on Saturday, April 6, aboard Soyuz MS-24 for a parachute-assisted landing
on steppe of Kazakhstan. Dyson will spend six months aboard the station as an Expedition 70 and 71 flight
engineer, returning to Earth in September with Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub of Roscosmos, who will complete a year-long mission on the laboratory. This will be the third spaceflight for Dyson, the fourth for Novitskiy, and the first for Vasilevskaya. Learn more about space station activities at:
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