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[b]Soyuz MS-24 crew, rocket poised for launch[/b] Soyuz MS-24 commander Oleg Kononenko and flight engineer Nikolai Chub of Roscosmos, together with NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, are set to launch to the International Space Station on Friday (Sept. 15) at 11:44 a.m. EDT (1544 GMT or 8:44 p.m. local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz is scheduled to dock to the station's Rassvet mini-research module at about 2:56 p.m. EDT (1856 GMT) the same day, after a two-orbit rendezvous. About two hours after docking, the hatches between the Soyuz and the space station will open and Kononenko, Chub and O'Hara will be greeted by Expedition 69 commander Sergey Prokopyev and cosmonauts Dmitry Petelin and Andrey Fedyaev of Roscosmos; NASA astronauts Frank Rubio and Jasmin Moghbeli; European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa. O'Hara will spend about six months on the space station, while Kononenko and Chub both will spend a year on the orbital outpost. This will be Kononenko’s fifth flight into space and the first for Chub and O'Hara. O'Hara is the second NASA astronaut to fly on a Soyuz under a new crew barter agreement since U.S. commercial crew vehicles began flying. On Tuesday (Sept. 12), the Soyuz-2.1a rocket topped with the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft was rolled out to Pad 31/6 by train and erected into position.
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