They will replace a crew staying on board for more than a year.
You can watch the launch live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA Television. Coverage starts about 45 minutes before launch. The crew will then make one of the fastest-ever trips to the ISS, potentially arriving as soon as 2:56 p.m. EDT . We will also carry that coverage live, from NASA. Hatch opening will follow around 4:45 p.m. EDT as the Soyuz astronauts join the Expedition 69 crew already on station.Expedition 69-70 astronauts at a press conference in Russia on Sept.
' Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin. Rubio and his colleagues were already scheduled for a six-month mission, which was delayed to a year following a leak in their own Soyuz spacecraft in December 2022.safely arrived in February . But prior to the leak, MS-23 was supposed to hold O'Hara and her relief crew, who were still in training at the time of its faster-than-expected launch. For Rubio and his crewmates, coming home required an even longer wait until the new MS-24 and O'Hara's crew would be ready this month to relieve them.
In the meantime, Rubio, Prokopyev and Petelin unintentionally set records. At an expected 371 days in space , they are the first crew to spend more than a year on the ISS. And only four people have spent longer in space than that, all cosmonauts who visited the Soviet-era
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