It will be Tracy Dyson's third trip to space.
astronaut Loral O'Hara aboard Soyuz MS-24. Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya will return home in spring 2024 with O'Hara following the NASA astronaut's six-month mission, while Kononenko and Chub will spend about a year in space before their return flight.
"Flying integrated crews ensures there are appropriately trained crew members on board the station for essential maintenance and spacewalks," NASA officialsat the time."It also protects against contingencies such as a problem with any crew spacecraft, serious crew medical issues or an emergency aboard the station that requires a crew and the vehicle they are assigned to return to Earth sooner than planned.
Dyson's Expedition 70/71 mission will be her third space excursion. The chemist by training has spent 188 days in space, starting with a 12-day excursion onmission Endeavour's STS-118 mission in 2007, then 174 days as flight engineer for Expedition 23/24 in 2010.
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