The rocket is poised to launch three members of the space station's Expedition 70 crew later this week.
was then repurposed for an uncrewed launch to the space station in order to bring the stranded astronaut and cosmonauts home.
The Expedition 70 crew members launching this week were originally slated to fly that spacecraft, but were bumped to Soyuz MS-24 as a part of the schedule adjustment. That rocket is scheduled to kickoff Friday morning, and is now standing at pad ready to launch. Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko will fly as mission commander for MS-24. He will be joined by fellow cosmonaut Nikolai Chub and NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, both of whom are headed to space for the first time.
This will be Kononenko's fifth mission, and will add six months to his already accumulated 736 days in orbit. As Kononenko and his crewmates reach the latter half of their stay onboard the ISS, the cosmonaut will surpass Gennadi Padalka as the most traveled human in space. PadalkaThe Soyuz 2.1a rocket for the MS-24 mission rolled to the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, Sept. 12, 2023.
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