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Topic:Soyuz MS-01 mission to the space station
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Robert PearlmancollectSPACE
First flight of upgraded Russian Soyuz MS spacecraft lifts off for space station

An upgraded Russian spacecraft lifted off on its maiden mission on Wednesday (July 6), launching a veteran Russian cosmonaut, a Japanese astronaut and an American microbiologist on a two-day journey to the space station.

Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos, Takuya Onishi with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and NASA's Kate Rubins took flight on Russia's Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft at 9:36 p.m. EDT (0136 GMT), or 7:36 a.m. Thursday (July 7) at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch site in Kazakhstan.

The three crewmates are scheduled to arrive at the space station just after midnight (EDT) on Saturday morning (July 9), after testing their spacecraft's modified systems during a 34-orbit rendezvous with the outpost.

Robert Pearlman
Soyuz MS-01 docks to space station

Russia's Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft docked to the Rassvet module at the International Space Station on Friday (July 8) at 11:06 p.m. CDT (0406 GMT July 9) as the two vehicles were orbiting 254 miles (409 km) over the South Pacific.

Robert Pearlman
Soyuz MS-01 undocks from space station

After 113 days on board the International Space Station, cosmonaut Anatoli Ivanishin of Roscosmos, astronaut Kate Rubins of NASA and astronaut Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency undocked their Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft from the Rassvet module on Saturday (Oct. 29) at 7:35 p.m. CDT (0035 GMT Oct. 30), beginning their return to Earth.

The Soyuz will perform a 4-minute, 37-second deorbit burn at 10:06 p.m. CDT (0306 GMT). The crew is scheduled to touch down at 10:59 p.m. CDT (0359 GMT) southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.

Robert PearlmancollectSPACE
Soyuz MS-01 lands with Russian, US and Japanese crew from space station

The first astronaut to sequence DNA in space is now back on Earth, together with her two space station crewmates.

Astronaut Kate Rubins, a molecular biologist who became the 60th woman to fly into space, returned home from the International Space Station Saturday (Oct. 29) with Anatoli Ivanishin of Roscosmos and Takuya Onishi with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

The three crewmates landed on the steppe of Kazakhstan at 11:58 p.m. EDT (0358 GMT or 9:58 a.m. Oct. 30 Kazakh time) on the first of Russia's modernized spacecraft, Soyuz MS-01. Their parachute and retro thruster assisted landing concluded 115 days in orbit for the trio since their launch to the space station on July 6.

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