NASA Sets Coverage For Crew Launch; Trio To Join Expedition 70

NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya are set to launch on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9:21 a.m. EDT. Dyson will spend six months aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as an Expedition 70 and 71 flight engineer, while Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya will stay for 12 days, providing the ride home for NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara. This mission marks Dyson’s third spaceflight, Novitskiy’s fourth, and Vasilevskaya’s first.

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