Engineering:Soyuz MS-24
 Soyuz MS-24 approaching the ISS | |
| Names | ISS 70S |
|---|---|
| Mission type | Crewed mission to ISS |
| Operator | Roscosmos |
| Website | en |
| Mission duration | 167 days, 22 hours and 23 minutes (in progress) 192 days (planned) |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Soyuz MS No.755 |
| Spacecraft type | Soyuz MS |
| Manufacturer | RSC Energia |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 3 |
| Members | Loral O'Hara |
| Launching |
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| Landing |
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| 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 | 2 April 2024 (planned) |
| 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 |
| Time docked | 167 days, 19 hours and 14 minutes (in progress) |
 O'Hara, Kononenko and Chub | |
Soyuz MS-24 is a Russian crewed Soyuz spaceflight launched from Baikonur on 15 September 2023 to the International Space Station.[1]
Crew
The original three-Russian member crew for this scenario was named in May 2021. American astronaut Loral O'Hara replaced Andrey Fedyaev as a part of the Soyuz-Dragon crew swap system of keeping at least one NASA astronaut and one Roscosmos cosmonaut on each of the crew rotation missions. This allows continuous space station occupation by US and Russia and keep backup crew scenarios to prevent either vehicle grounding like Soyuz MS-10 launch failure or to compensate for delays in launch of crew rotation missions of either vehicles like SpaceX Crew-3, that was delayed due to unfavorable launch weather conditions.[2] 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Commander |  Oleg Kononenko, RoscosmosExpedition 69/70/71 Fifth spaceflight |
Oleg Novitsky, Roscosmos Visiting Fourth spaceflight |
| Flight Engineer/ Spaceflight Participant | Nikolai Chub, Roscosmos Expedition 69/70/71 First spaceflight |
Template:Country data BLS Marina Vasilevskaya[3] Visiting First spaceflight |
| Flight Engineer |  Loral O'Hara, NASAExpedition 69/70 First spaceflight | |
Backup crew
| Position | Crew member | |
|---|---|---|
| Commander | Aleksey Ovchinin, Roscosmos
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| Flight Engineer 1 | None | |
| Flight Engineer 2 | Tracy Caldwell-Dyson[4], NASA
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References
- ↑ Zak, Anatoly (13 February 2023). "Space exploration in 2023". RussianSpaceWeb. https://www.russianspaceweb.com/2023.html.
- ↑ "Rogozin says Crew Dragon safe for Russian cosmonauts". SpaceNews. 2021-10-26. https://spacenews.com/rogozin-says-crew-dragon-safe-for-russian-cosmonauts/.
- ↑ "Belarusian female astronaut to go ISS in March 2024 — Roscosmos". https://tass.com/science/1624689.
- ↑ Imgur. "imgur.com" (in en). https://imgur.com/5YMstdx.
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