Russian crew flying to ISSO

Russian crew flying to ISSO

The Soyuz (Russia) spacecraft carries three cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov to the International Space Station (ISS) on March 19. The ship was paired with the station’s new Prichal module at 2:12 a.m. Hanoi time, when both vehicles were in the skies over eastern Kazakhstan. The docking took place less than 3.5 hours after the Soyuz took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The barrier between the Soyuz and the ISS station opened at 4:48 a.m. for the three astronauts to enter to meet their colleagues at the station. It was the first flight involving all Russian cosmonauts since 2000, when Sergei Zalyotin and Aleksandr Kaleri carried out their final mission to the country’s Mir space station. After that, Russian cosmonauts carried out many missions, but all of them flew with professional astronauts from other countries or with space tourists.

Artemyev, Matveev and Korsakov are expected to remain on the ISS until September. The trio will work closely with the seven astronauts on board, Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov from the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, and Matthias Maurer from the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos. The European Space Agency (ESA), Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn, Kayla Barron and Mark Vande Hei of NASA. However, Shkaplerov, Dubrov and Vande Hei will soon leave orbit. They are scheduled to return to Earth aboard the Soyuz spacecraft on March 30.

The ISS will receive more people soon. On April 3, SpaceX plans to launch the Ax-1 mission, carrying 4 passengers to the station and staying for 8 days. In addition, Elon Musk’s company is also planning to make a flight to bring the crew of Crew-4 to the ISS for NASA on April 19.

Kam Thao (Based on Space)

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