MOSCOW — A Russian house capsule with two ladies and one man safely landed in a steppe in Kazakhstan on Saturday after their missions aboard the Worldwide Area Station.
The Soyuz MS-24 carrying Russia’s Oleg Novitsky, NASA’s Loral O’Hara and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus touched down southeast of the distant city of Dzhezkazgan at 12:17 p.m. Kazakh time (0717 GMT).
These remaining on the orbiting outpost are NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Tracy Dyson and Jeannette Epps in addition to Russian cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin and Oleg Kononenko.
O’Hara arrived on the Worldwide Area Station on Sept. 15, 2023, spending a complete of 204 days there, NASA mentioned.
Novitsky and Vasilevskaya blasted off to house on March 23, two days later than initially deliberate. The launch of a Soyuz spacecraft carrying them and Dyson, scheduled for March 21, was aborted on the final minute on account of a voltage drop in an influence supply, in accordance with Yury Borisov, head of Russia’s house company Roscosmos.
The delay resulted in a two-day, 34-orbit journey to the house station for the crew. If the launch had gone as scheduled, the journey would have been a lot shorter, requiring solely two orbits.
The house station, which has served as a logo of post-Chilly Warfare worldwide cooperation, is now one of many final remaining areas of collaboration between Russia and the West amid tensions over Moscow’s navy motion in Ukraine. NASA and its companions hope to proceed working the orbiting outpost till 2030.
Russia has continued to depend on modified variations of Soviet-designed rockets for business satellites, in addition to crews and cargo to the house station.
