Soyuz MS-23
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Names | ISS 69S |
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Mission type | Crewed mission to ISS |
Operator | Roscosmos |
COSPAR ID | 2023-024A |
SATCAT no. | 55688 |
Website | http://en.roscosmos.ru/ |
Mission duration | 188 days (planned) |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz MS |
Manufacturer | RSC Energia |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | March 2023 (planned) |
Rocket | Soyuz-2.1a |
Launch site | Baikonur Cosmodrome, Site 31 |
Contractor | Progress Rocket Space Centre |
End of mission | |
Landing date | September 2023 (planned) |
Landing site | Kazakh Steppe, Kazakhstan |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Inclination | 51.66° |
Docking with ISS | |
Docking port | Prichal nadir |
(L-R) O' Hara, Kononenko and Chub |
Soyuz MS-23 is a Russian Soyuz spaceflight to the International Space Station with a crew of three planned for launch from Baikonur in March 2023.[1]
Crew
The original three-Russian member crew 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.[2]
Position | Launching Crew member | Landing Crew member |
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Commander | Oleg Kononenko, Roscosmos Expedition 68/69 Fifth spaceflight | |
Flight Engineer | Nikolai Chub, Roscosmos Expedition 68/69 First spaceflight |
Loral O'Hara, Nasa Expedition 68/69 First spaceflight |
Flight Engineer / Spaceflight Participant | Loral O'Hara, NASA Expedition 68/69 First spaceflight |
TBA First spaceflight |
Backup crew
Position | Crew member | |
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Commander | Aleksey Ovchinin, Roscosmos | |
Flight Engineer 1 | Oleg Platonov, Roscosmos | |
Flight Engineer 2 | Tracy Caldwell-Dyson[3], NASA |
Assuming the this mission lasts the usual 180 days, Kononenko will have spent a total of 916 days in space, exceeding the current record, 878 days by Gennady Padalka.
References
- ^ "Space exploration in 2023". russianspaceweb.com. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
- ^ "Rogozin says Crew Dragon safe for Russian cosmonauts". SpaceNews. 26 October 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ Imgur. "imgur.com". Imgur. Retrieved 13 August 2022.