Soyuz Launches New Crew to ISS Written 9 April 2021
A Soyuz rocket is launched carrying Expedition 65 crew members Friday, April 9, 2021, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.| Credit: Bill Ingalls; NASA
Space News reports that a Russian Soyuz spacecraft bringing Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov and American astronaut Mark Vande Hei to the International Space Station arrived April 9, “a few hours after launching from Kazakhstan.” The Soyuz 2.1a rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 3:42 a.m. ET and docked with the station’s Rassvet module at 7:05 a.m. ET, following “a two-orbit approach to the station.” The trio is expected to “remain on the station through at least October as part of the Expedition 65 crew.”
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