Names | ISS 70S |
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Mission type | Crewed mission to ISS |
Operator | Roscosmos |
COSPAR ID | 2023-143A |
SATCAT no. | 57862 |
Website | en |
Mission duration | 203 days, 15 hours and 33 minutes |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Soyuz MS No.755 |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz MS |
Manufacturer | RSC Energia |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 |
Members | Loral O'Hara |
Launching | |
Landing | |
Callsign | Antares |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 15 September 2023, 15:44 UTC |
Rocket | Soyuz-2.1a |
Launch site | Baikonur Cosmodrome, Site 31 |
Contractor | Progress Rocket Space Centre |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 6 April 2024, 07:17 UTC |
Landing site | Kazakh Steppe, Kazakhstan |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Inclination | 51.66° |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | Rassvet nadir |
Docking date | 15 September 2023, 18:53 UTC |
Undocking date | 6 April 2024, 03:54 UTC |
Time docked | 203 days, 9 hours and 1 minute |
O'Hara, Kononenko and Chub |
Soyuz MS-24 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. If the mission lasts 300-365 days, Kononenko will have spent a total of 1,036-1,101 days in space, exceeding the current record of 878 days by Gennady Padalka. He will thus also become the first person to stay 1,000 days in space.
Primary Crew
Position | Launching Crew member | Landing Crew member |
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Commander | Oleg Kononenko, Roscosmos Expedition 69/70/71 Fifth spaceflight |
Oleg Novitsky, Roscosmos Visiting Fourth spaceflight |
Flight Engineer/ Spaceflight Participant | Nikolai Chub, Roscosmos Expedition 69/70/71 First spaceflight |
Marina Vasilevskaya[2] Visiting First spaceflight |
Flight Engineer | Loral O'Hara, NASA Expedition 69/70 First spaceflight |
Backup crew
Position | Crew member | |
---|---|---|
Commander | Aleksey Ovchinin, Roscosmos | |
Flight Engineer 1 | None | |
Flight Engineer 2 | Tracy Caldwell-Dyson[3], NASA |
Undocking and Return
[edit]After completing her expedition, Loral 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. If the mission lasts 300–365 days, Kononenko will have spent a total of 1,036–1,101 days in space, exceeding the current record of 878 days by Gennady Padalka. He will thus also become the first person to stay 1,000 days in space.[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.