Roscosmos announced today the launch date of the spacecraft "Soyuz MS-25" and named the crew members.
The launch of the "Soyuz MS-25" spacecraft with the 21st expedition crew is scheduled for March 13, 2024.
Among the crew members are Roscosmos astronaut Oleg Novitsky, Belarussian astronaut Marina Vasilevskaya, and NASA astronaut Tracey Dyson.
Oleg Novitsky and Marina Vasilevskaya will spend 12 days on the ISS and return to Earth with Lorall O'Hara, a NASA astronaut, on the Soyuz MS-24. Tracey Dyson will continue the flight.
The state corporation announced today that two Belarusians, Marina Vasilevskaya and Anastasia Lenkova, arrived at the cosmonaut training center where they will begin training for space flight. Anastasia Lenkova, along with astronaut Ivan Wagner and NASA astronaut Donald Roy Pettit, will be part of the backup crew.
The training will take eight months and will include, in particular, the study of the manned spacecraft "Soyuz MS" systems and the Russian segment of the ISS, crew training for emergency landing in different climatic and geographical areas.