The American woman launched on Soyuz-MS-25 will be left in space for a long time (VIDEO)

The flight, which began with an emergency situation, is on schedule. It is planned that following a 12-day visiting expedition to the ISS, Oleg Novitsky (53) and Marina Vasilevskaya (33) will return to Earth on April 6, 2024 on the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft with NASA astronaut Laurel O’Hara, and American Tracy Dyson ( 54) will continue to fly to the ISS as part of space expedition ISS-70/ISS-71 until September 23, 2024 and land on the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft together with Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, following their one-year stay at the station.

Soyuz MS-25 (No. 756) is a Russian manned transport spacecraft, launched to the International Space Station on March 23, 2024. It was previously scheduled for March 13, rescheduled for March 21, but was canceled due to technical reasons. The spacecraft was launched using a Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle from launch pad No. 31 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome. During the flight, it is planned to deliver one member of space expeditions ISS-70/71 and two members of the 21st visiting expedition. This is the 175th flight of the Soyuz family of spacecraft, including the 71st to the ISS.

“The incident with the cancellation of the launch of the Soyuz MS-25 manned spacecraft 20 seconds before launch occurred for the first time in the history of Russian cosmonautics,” said cosmonautics historian Alexander Zheleznyakov.

“This has never happened before. In the history of Russian cosmonautics, launches of manned spacecraft were never canceled just before the “start” command. There were other excesses, but there were no such incidents. It happened with unmanned ones, but not with manned ones,” Zheleznyakov said.