Ten crewmates now reside aboard the International Space Station after the arrival of the Soyuz MS-25 crew ship on Monday. They may stay and work collectively the following a number of days earlier than returning to a seven-member crew once more and starting the Expedition 71 mission in early April.
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson arrived on the orbital lab on Monday with Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and Belarus spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya. Dyson will keep in area for about six months as a member of the station crew. Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya will return to Earth with NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara on April 6.
The trio will return to Earth contained in the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft that has been docked to the Rassvet module since Sept. 15, 2023. O’Hara may have lived and labored on the orbital outpost for six-and-a-half months having performed superior area analysis and one spacewalk.
Dyson and her two Soyuz crewmates will likely be spending the following few days familiarizing themselves with area station techniques. Subsequent, they may flip their consideration to a bunch of science and academic actions earlier than returning dwelling whereas Dyson stays in area till later this yr.
Station flight engineers Matthew Dominick, Mike Barratt, Jeanette Epps, and Alexander Grebenkin are within the first month of their mission having arrived on the station on March 5 aboard the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour. They may keep in area till mid-summer researching all kinds of phenomena together with neurodegenerative ailments, the results of microgravity and radiation on vegetation, and stopping space-caused fluid shifts in astronauts.
Cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub are as a consequence of keep in area for simply over a yr serving to docs perceive how residing long-term in microgravity impacts the human physique. The duo will depart the area station contained in the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft and produce dwelling Tracy Dyson in early fall.
Be taught extra about station actions by following the area station weblog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, in addition to the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.
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