Expedition 65 Crew Blasts Off on Short Ride to Space Station

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Expedition 65 Crew Blasts Off

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The Soyuz MS-18 rocket launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan bring 3 Expedition 65 team members to the spaceport station. Credit: NASA

Nearly 9 minutes after an effective launch at 3: 42 a.m. EDT of the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of the Russian area firm Roscosmos securely reached orbit. They have actually started a two-orbit, three-hour flight to reach the International Space Station and sign up with the Expedition 64 team. At the time of launch, the station was flying about 259 miles over northern Uzbekistan, 335 miles behind the Soyuz as it left the launch pad.

This is the 2nd spaceflight for Vande Hei, the 3rd for Novitskiy, and the very first for Dubrov. They will dock the Soyuz to the station’s Rassvet module at 7: 07 a.m. Coverage of the docking will start on NASA TELEVISION and the firm’s site, and the NASA app at 6: 15 a.m.

Three Expedition 65 crewmates reached area after going for 3: 42 a.m. EDT aboard the Soyuz MS-18 rocket. They will dock to the station today at 7: 07 a.m. Credit: NASA

About 2 hours after docking, hatches in between the Soyuz and the station will open, and they will sign up with NASA Flight Engineer Kate Rubins, who showed up on the station with Commander Sergey Ryzhikov and Flight Engineer Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Roscosmos in October 2020, and the team of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience – NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, in addition to Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi – who have actually remained in orbit considering that November.