Soyuz MS-25, Russian production No. 756 and identified by

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as Soyuz 71S, was a Russian crewed

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spaceflight from

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to the

International Space Station The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station that was Assembly of the International Space Station, assembled and is maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United ...

Crew

MS-25 saw was the first launch of two women, Tracy Caldwell-Dyson from the

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and

Maryna Vasileuskaya Maryna Vitaleuna Vasileuskaya (; born 14 September 1990) is a Belarusian cosmonaut and flight attendant for Belavia Airlines. She is the first Belarusian woman to be launched into space. Biography Maryna Vasileuskaya graduated from secondary scho ...

from

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, aboard a

spacecraft. MS-25 also saw the launch of two people from Belarus, as the mission commander,

Oleg Novitsky Oleg Viktorovich Novitsky (; also '' tr.'' Novitskiy; born October 12, 1971) is a former Lieutenant Colonel in the Russian Air Force who logged over 700 hours of flight time and was awarded for bravery. He is currently serving as a Russian cosm ...

was born in

Chervyen Chervyen or Cherven, previously known as Ihumen until 1923, is a town in Minsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Chervyen District. In 2016, its population was 9,718.Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR, Byelorussian SSR or Byelorussia; ; ), also known as Soviet Belarus or simply Belarus, was a Republics of the Soviet Union, republic of the Soviet Union (USSR). It existed between 1920 and 19 ...

Flight

It was originally scheduled for launch on 21 March 2024, but due to a voltage drop in one of the power generators, the launch was aborted. The second launch attempt on 23 March 2024 was successful. Caldwell-Dyson spent approximately six months aboard the International Space Station. Novitsky and Vasileuskaya of Belarus spent approximately 13 days aboard the orbital complex as a part of 21st ISS visiting expedition before returning aboard Soyuz MS-24.

Undocking and Return

At the end of Expedition 71, Caldwell-Dyson returned to Earth on Soyuz MS-25 with Roscosmos cosmonauts

Oleg Kononenko Oleg Dmitriyevich Kononenko (; ; born 21 June 1964) is a Russian cosmonaut. He has flown to the International Space Station five times as a flight engineer for Expedition 17 aboard Soyuz TMA-12, as a flight engineer on Expedition 30 and comm ...

and Nikolai Chub on 23 September 2024. They arrived with

astronaut

Loral O'Hara Loral Ashley O'Hara (born May 3, 1983) is an American engineer and NASA astronaut. Early life and education Loral Ashley O'Hara was born on May 3, 1983, in Houston, Texas, to Cindy and Steve O'Hara. She grew up in Sugar Land, Texas, where she at ...

Soyuz MS-24 Soyuz MS-24, Russian production No. 755 and identified by NASA as Soyuz 70S, was a Russian crewed Soyuz spaceflight launched from Baikonur on 15 September 2023 to the International Space Station. Crew They were originally assigned to Soyuz M ...

on 15 September 2023. O'Hara returned to Earth on MS-24 with Novitsky and Vasileuskaya. Kononenko and Chub remained aboard the orbital laboratory for a year. As the mission lasted 374 days, Kononenko spent a total of 1,111 days in space by the time he returned to Earth. He broke the world record of 878 days in space held by

Gennady Padalka Gennady Ivanovich Padalka (; born 21 June 1958 in Krasnodar, Soviet Union) is a Russian Air Force officer and Roscosmos cosmonaut. Padalka is the only person to have served as commander of the International Space Station (ISS) four times. He previ ...

on February 4, 2024 at 07:30:08 UTC. He later became the first person to stay 900, 1,000, and 1,100 days in space on 25 February 2024, 4 June 2024, and 12 September 2024 respectively.

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