A Soyuz MS-24 capsule carrying three crew members safely landed in the steppe of Kazakhstan on Saturday. The mission concluded as Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, NASA's Loral O'Hara, and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus touched down southeast of Dzhezkazgan at 12:17 p.m. Kazakh time (0717 GMT).
Meanwhile, the International Space Station continues its mission with NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Tracy Dyson, and Jeannette Epps, alongside Russian cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, and Oleg Kononenko.
Loral O'Hara arrived at the ISS on September 15, 2023, completing a 204-day journey in space. The Soyuz MS-24 launch, initially scheduled for March 21, faced a last-minute delay due to a voltage drop in a power source, as announced by Yury Borisov, head of Roscosmos. This resulted in a two-day, 34-orbit trip to the space station, extended from the planned two-orbit journey.
Russia continues to utilize modified Soviet-designed rockets for deploying commercial satellites and transporting crews and cargo to the ISS, demonstrating the enduring legacy of its space technology.
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