Российский корабль «Союз МС-26» благополучно прибыл на МКС

Now Soyuz MS-25 with Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, and Tracy Dyson is preparing to return to Earth

The Soyuz MS-26 manned spacecraft, launched from Baikonur on the evening of September 11 at 19:23 Moscow time, successfully reached the ISS. In addition to the cosmonauts, it delivered about 130 kg of cargo and equipment for six scientific experiments to the ISS.

According to Roscosmos, Soyuz MS-26 docked to the Rassvet module in automatic mode on September 11 at 22:32 Moscow time. Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit have already met with their colleagues on the ISS.

Now Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, as well as NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, can safely return to Earth on September 23. They have already tried on the placement in individual Kazbek-UM reclining chairs of the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft and prepared return cargo.

The commander of the Roscosmos cosmonaut corps, Oleg Kononenko, will become the absolute world record holder for the number of total hours spent in space: 1,110 days. He had already broken the record in February 2024 for the number of total hours spent in space. As of 11:30:08 Moscow time on February 5, Kononenko had spent a total of 879 days, 11 hours, 29 minutes and 48 seconds in space.

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