Posts: 51127 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 05-23-2021 10:51 AM
This thread is intended for comments and questions about the Soyuz MS-23 mission to the International Space Station.
SkyMan1958 Member
Posts: 1318 From: CA. Registered: Jan 2011
posted 05-23-2021 10:52 AM
Roscosmos announced the crew members:
In the second half of 2023, as part of the ISS-69 expedition, Oleg Kononenko, Nikolay Chub and Andrey Fedyaev have been appointed as the prime crew of the Russian segment of the ISS.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 51127 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 06-13-2022 05:48 PM
One of the crew members of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft will stay on the space station longer than the others to allow for a short-stay visit by a Belarusian cosmonaut, General Director of the Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin told TASS.
According to him, it is yet to be decided, what cosmonaut from the Soyuz MS-23 crew will have to stay in orbit.
"There has not been an official proposal from the Cosmonaut Training Center yet. It will appear only after we receive a list of Belarusian candidates, when we understand that our friends from Minsk are aimed at implementing this task," Rogozin added.
Now the crew of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft at the training stage includes cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolay Chub and Andrey Fedyaev. Their flight is scheduled for next spring. The Belarusian cosmonaut will make a short flight in the autumn of 2023 and return on the Soyuz MS-23.
On April 12, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed Roscosmos to organize a flight of representatives of Belarus into space on a Russian spacecraft. Then Rogozin said that the Belarusian side had to select at least two dozen candidates for space flight by June 15.
SkyMan1958 Member
Posts: 1318 From: CA. Registered: Jan 2011
posted 06-13-2022 07:59 PM
Two dozen Belarussians? That seems rather excessive. Almost certainly the primary person that will be picked will be Belarussian Air Force, so they'll be in good physical shape. I would think that even a half dozen would be plenty to choose from.
Perhaps it is to be a bit of a media event, with Belarus televising the assorted candidates so that different parts of the country, or different constituencies, can feel the "Brotherhood" with Mother Russia...
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 51127 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 06-22-2022 08:39 PM
Belarus submitted the names of 29 cosmonaut candidates, reports TASS.
Steps to further select the candidates will be discussed on the sidelines of the exhibition "National Security. Belarus-2022" in Minsk, according to the agency.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 51127 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 07-15-2022 10:22 AM
From a NASA statement issued this morning, NASA has reached an agreement to resume integrated crews on U.S. crew spacecraft and the Russian Soyuz with the Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos. With the agreement in place, NASA has assigned astronaut Loral O'Hara as a flight engineer and member of the Expedition 69 crew.
O’Hara, along with cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, are scheduled to launch in spring 2023 on the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft.
Roscosmos has reassigned Andrey Fedyaev to launch on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 51127 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 01-11-2023 09:11 AM
As a result of the micrometeorite damage to Soyuz MS-22, Roscosmos and NASA have decided to launch Soyuz MS-23 without a crew as a replacement vehicle for the Soyuz MS-22 crew.
As such, Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin and Frank Rubio will remain on the space station for an extended stay until the next crew rotation with Soyuz MS-24 is ready (the schedule for that rotation is still being decided).
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 51127 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 02-13-2023 10:53 AM
The launch of Soyuz MS-23, which had been scheduled for Feb. 20, has been delayed to no sooner than March 10 as Roscosmos investigates the coolant leak on Progress MS-21 and its relation (if any) to the earlier leak on Soyuz MS-22.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 51127 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 02-18-2023 10:21 AM
Roscosmos release
Soyuz MS-23 launch scheduled
Today (Feb. 18), RSC Energia hosted a council of chief designers dedicated to the launch of the Soyuz MS-23 uncrewed spacecraft to the International Space Station.
After the depressurization of the thermal control system of the Progress MS-21 cargo ship, which occurred on Feb. 11 at the ISS, specialists from Roscosmos carefully analyzed the received telemetry information and images of the outer surface of the ship. They also examined in detail the radiator on the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft, which was located in the assembly and test building of the 254th site of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, and did not reveal any damage on it.
As a result, the council of chief designers recommended to the state commission to schedule the launch of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft by the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle from Baikonur on Feb. 24 at 03:34 Moscow time (7:34 p.m. EST Feb. 23).
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 51127 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 02-23-2023 05:52 PM
Roscosmos video
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 51127 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 09-27-2023 02:56 AM
NASA live video
Watch live as NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, the new record holder for the longest single U.S. spaceflight, returns home from the International Space Station. The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft with Rubio and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin aboard is scheduled to land on the steppe of Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Sept. 27 at 7:17 a.m. EDT (1117 UTC).
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 51127 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 09-28-2023 10:44 AM
Mark Vande Hei, the previous record holder for the longest American spaceflight, was on hand to greet the new record holder on his return to Houston. From Johnson Space Center (via X):
He’s home! Frank Rubio returned to Houston this morning, with his friends and family there to greet him. He landed back on Earth yesterday after spending 371 days in space.
posted 05-23-2021 10:51 AM
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