Soyuz MS-24

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Soyuz MS-24
NamesISS 70S
Mission typeCrewed mission to ISS
OperatorRoscosmos
Websitehttp://en.roscosmos.ru/
Mission duration180 days (planned)
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft typeSoyuz MS
ManufacturerRSC Energia
Crew
Crew size3
Members
Start of mission
Launch dateJune 2023 (planned)[1]
RocketSoyuz-2.1a
Launch siteBaikonur Cosmodrome, Site 31
ContractorProgress Rocket Space Centre
End of mission
Landing date2024 (planned)
Landing siteKazakh Steppe, Kazakhstan
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric orbit
RegimeLow Earth orbit
Inclination51.66°
Docking with ISS
Docking portRassvet nadir
Soyuz MS-24 Crew.jpg
O'Hara, Kononenko and Chub 

Soyuz MS-24 is a planned Russian crewed Soyuz spaceflight to launch from Baikonur in June 2023 to the International Space Station.[2]

The mission was planned to be launched in September 2023 but it was advanced to June to remove external radiator coolant leak concerns on Soyuz MS-23 as it happened with Soyuz MS-22 and Progress MS-21.[1]

Crew[edit]

The original three-Russian member crew for this scenario was named in May 2021. American astronaut Loral O'Hara replaced Andrey Fedyaev as a part of the Soyuz-Dragon crew swap system of keeping at least one NASA astronaut and one Roscosmos cosmonaut on each of the crew rotation missions. This ensures both countries have a presence on the station, and the ability to maintain their separate systems if either Soyuz or commercial crew vehicles are grounded for an extended period.[3] They were originally assigned to Soyuz MS-23 mission, but were moved to MS-24, due to Soyuz MS-22 coolant leak accident that required MS-23 to be launched uncrewed as its replacement.

Primary Crew

Position Launching Crew member Landing Crew member
Commander Russia Oleg Kononenko, Roscosmos
Expedition 69/70
Fifth spaceflight
Flight Engineer Russia Nikolai Chub, Roscosmos
Expedition 69/70/71
First spaceflight 		United States Loral O'Hara, NASA
Expedition 69/70
First spaceflight
Flight Engineer / Spaceflight Participant United States Loral O'Hara, NASA
Expedition 69/70
First spaceflight 		Belarus Olga Mastitskaya, Victoria Fidrus, Anastasia Lenkova, Olga Gerasimova, Daria Mikhnyuk or Marina Vasilevskaya[4]
First spaceflight

Backup crew

Position Crew member
Commander Russia Aleksey Ovchinin, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 1 Russia Oleg Platonov, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 2 United States Tracy Caldwell-Dyson[5], NASA

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Krebs, Gunter [@Skyrocket71] (10 March 2023). "Roskosmos evaluates if they have to cut the Soyuz-MS24 mission short to ~3.5 months as they can not rule out the possibility of a manufacturing defect in the cooling system similar to Soyuz-MS22 & Progress MS21. Apparently they don't have too much confidence in the impact theory. t.co/XnzhnAmFXN" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 10 March 2023. Retrieved 20 March 2023 – via Twitter.
  2. ^ Zak, Anatoly (13 February 2023). "Space exploration in 2023". RussianSpaceWeb. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  3. ^ "Rogozin says Crew Dragon safe for Russian cosmonauts". SpaceNews. 26 October 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  4. ^ "Belarusian cosmonaut candidates named". eng.belta.by. 24 December 2022. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
  5. ^ Imgur. "imgur.com". Imgur. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
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