NASA has joined with Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, to launch three astronauts to the International Space Station on Friday.
Cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko along with astronaut Loral O’Hara will assume their voyage in a Russian spacecraft, the Soyuz MS-24, from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The launch is scheduled for 11:44 a.m. ET. Over three hours, the spacecraft will move through two orbits before reaching the ISS.
The Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on the launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (Andrey Borodulin/AFP via Getty Images)
The scientists are to participate in separate missions aboard the ISS: O’Hara will stay onboard for six months, and the two cosmonauts are to complete a year-long mission. They will relieve crew members of the ISS Expedition 70, who were scheduled to return to Earth six months ago, Space.com reported. The delay was a result of a leak onboard the ISS — forcing O’Hara to wait half a year before taking her first flight into space.
The latest expedition is taking place as tensions between the U.S. and Russia have reached dizzying heights. The ISS was launched in 1998 through the collaboration of the U.S. and 10 other countries, including Russia. The space station would see U.S.-Russia diplomatic relations improve following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Recently, however, it was the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 that soured relations with Washington.
Astronaut Loral O’Hara and cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)
NASA chief Bill Nelson said the U.S. would continue to work with Russia on the ISS, despite condemning the Kremlin’s actions in Ukraine. “We are completely at odds with President [Vladimir] Putin’s aggression,” Nelson said, according to Reuters, adding that the relationship would continue until the ISS is decommissioned. It will begin to de-orbit in January 2031, and you can read more about it from Semafor here.
NASA and Russia’s Roscosmos join forces in International Space Station launch
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