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“Yuri Gagarin” flies to the orbital station: Roscosmos staff member gave the go-ahead – broadcast

Today, April 9 at 10:42 am Kyiv time, the crew of the 191-day expedition ISS-65 is to leave the launch pad # 31 of the Baikonur cosmodrome for the International Space Station.

 

For NASA astronaut Mark Vande Haya, this is the second flight, for the Russians Oleg Novitsky and Peter Dubrov – the third. They have to get to the station on the Soyuz MS-18 “YA Gagarin” spacecraft, which will carry the Soyuz-2.1a rocket onto the trajectory to it.

At 10:51 the spacecraft will be launched into the target orbit, and its automatic docking with the Rassvet module at the station is scheduled after 3.5 hours – at about 14:08.

Peter Dubrov (photo - NASA, GCTC / Irina Spector)
Oleg Novitsky (photo - NASA, GCTC / Andrey Shelepin)

The crew is vaccinated against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. His stunt doubles are NASA astronaut Anne McClain and Roscosmos cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Oleg Artemiev.

Now on the ISS: NASA astronauts Kathleen Rubins, Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, Soichi Noguchi from JAXA, as well as Russians Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov.

Watch the video: SpaceX with a crew flew from one ISS port to another

Shortly before the launch, a staff member of Roscosmos in an unusual suit did manipulations with the personnel of the cosmodrome and the rocket:

Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls

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