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[b]Soyuz MS-25 crew, rocket poised for launch[/b] Soyuz MS-25 commander Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, flight engineer Tracy Dyson of NASA and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus are set to launch to the International Space Station on Thursday (March 21) at 9:21 a.m. EDT (1421 GMT or 6:21 p.m. local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz is scheduled to dock to the station's Prichal node module at about 12:39 p.m. EDT (1739 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 Novitskiy, Dyson and Vasilevskaya will be greeted by Expedition 70 commander Oleg Kononenko and cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and Alexander Grebenkin of Roscosmos and NASA astronauts Loral O'Hara, Matthew Dominick and Jeanette Epps. Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya will be aboard the space station for 12 days, providing the ride home for O'Hara on Tuesday, April 2, aboard Soyuz MS-24 for a parachute-assisted landing on steppe of Kazakhstan. Dyson will spend six months aboard the station as an Expedition 70 and 71 flight engineer, returning to Earth in September with Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub of Roscosmos, who will complete a year-long mission on the laboratory. On Monday (March 18), the Soyuz-2.1a rocket topped with the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft was rolled out to Pad 31/6 by train and erected into position.
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