#SoyuzMS24 and #ProgressMS24 are loaded onto railway platforms and prepared for transportation to Baikonur.
This Tuesday, six Belarusian candidates for a space flight arrived at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center for a training which will presumably finished in September 2023. According to unofficial reports, all of them are women.
The inclusion of two airline cabin crew, seems a bit unorthodox!
Planned Russian space launches in 2023:Quote...On Feb. 1, 2023, Roskosmos announced that two Soyuz-2-1a rockets for launching Progress MS-23 and Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft had been shipped from the manufacturing site at RKTs Progress in Samara to the Baikonur launch site.
...On Feb. 1, 2023, Roskosmos announced that two Soyuz-2-1a rockets for launching Progress MS-23 and Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft had been shipped from the manufacturing site at RKTs Progress in Samara to the Baikonur launch site.
https://twitter.com/katlinegrey/status/1634070681687080961Quote1/3. Referring to three anonymous sources in space industry, Izvestia reported that the launch of #SoyuzMS24 may happen earlier than planned: in June 2023 instead of September 2023. https://iz.ru/1480829/olga-kolentcova/orbitalnaia-distantciia-soiuz-ms-24-mogut-zapustit-na-mks-na-tri-mesiatca-ranshe-planatwitter.com/katlinegrey/status/1634070689006120961Quote2/3. According to the sources of Izvestia, some Roscosmos specialists don’t exclude the possibility of a manufacturing defect in the cooling system of Soyuz-MS 22 and Progress MS-21. So they insist on the earlier return of Soyuz MS-23 in case if it has the same defect.https://twitter.com/katlinegrey/status/1634070695360581634Quote3/3. Roscosmos told to Izvestia that the launch date of Soyuz-MS 24 will be determined later by the State Commission.
1/3. Referring to three anonymous sources in space industry, Izvestia reported that the launch of #SoyuzMS24 may happen earlier than planned: in June 2023 instead of September 2023. https://iz.ru/1480829/olga-kolentcova/orbitalnaia-distantciia-soiuz-ms-24-mogut-zapustit-na-mks-na-tri-mesiatca-ranshe-plana
2/3. According to the sources of Izvestia, some Roscosmos specialists don’t exclude the possibility of a manufacturing defect in the cooling system of Soyuz-MS 22 and Progress MS-21. So they insist on the earlier return of Soyuz MS-23 in case if it has the same defect.
3/3. Roscosmos told to Izvestia that the launch date of Soyuz-MS 24 will be determined later by the State Commission.
The Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft can go to the ISS three months ahead of schedule - June 7 instead of September 15, three sources in the industry told Izvestia. This may be due to the desire to quickly return cosmonauts Sergei Prokopiev, Dmitry Petelin and Francisco Rubio to Earth. They were forced to stay in orbit due to the depressurization of the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft. A little later, a similar incident occurred with the Progress MS-21 cargo ship. According to Izvestia's sources, some experts still do not rule out that the cause of these emergency situations was a manufacturing defect. Under these conditions, they want to return to Earth both people and the Soyuz MS-23 sent earlier for them, which theoretically can also have similar defects.The Energia Rocket and Space Corporation is discussing the possibility of postponing the launch of the Soyuz MS-24 manned spacecraft to the ISS for June 7, a source familiar with the situation told Izvestia. This will allow to change three members of the station crew three months ahead of schedule. Now the information on the Roskosmos website says that the launch date of the spacecraft is September 15. The second source - from RSC Energia - said that such a scenario for the development of the situation is indeed being discussed, however, in all official documents, the September date outlined in the plan is still preserved.Roskosmos, in response to a request from Izvestia, reported that "the official decision on the launch date of the Soyuz MS-24 TPK will be made by the State Commission, about which the state corporation will inform."
https://iz.ru/1480829/olga-kolentcova/orbitalnaia-distantciia-soiuz-ms-24-mogut-zapustit-na-mks-na-tri-mesiatca-ranshe-plana
Quote from: ddspaceman on 03/08/2023 03:40 am Expedition 68 Astronaut Frank Rubio Talks with Televisa Univision - March 7, 2023 In this video of Frank Rubio with the Televisa channel (in Spanish), around minute 7:30 when he is asked about the extension of the mission he says: "At the end of the month we will know, we don't know if it will be 3 or 6 months more".If it were only 3 months more, the return would be at the end of June or so, and I can't imagine in which spacecraft he could return.I don't think the Russians will advance Soyuz MS-24 launch to July, so he could refer only to his own return.Does anyone have any information on this decision for the extended stay?
Expedition 68 Astronaut Frank Rubio Talks with Televisa Univision - March 7, 2023
Quote from: TALsite on 03/08/2023 08:01 pmIn this video of Frank Rubio with the Televisa channel (in Spanish), around minute 7:30 when he is asked about the extension of the mission he says: "At the end of the month we will know, we don't know if it will be 3 or 6 months more".https://t.me/zheleznyakov_spaceera/501Timing of the launch of the next expedition to the ISS will be determined during a meeting of the State Commission, to be held on March 24. Oleg Kononenko, deputy chief of the TsPK and commander of the cosmonaut detachment of Roscosmos, told reporters on Wednesday."There will be a meeting of the state commission this Friday, where the date of the launch of my expedition will be determined," Kononenko said in response to when his next flight is scheduled.Translated with DeepL
In this video of Frank Rubio with the Televisa channel (in Spanish), around minute 7:30 when he is asked about the extension of the mission he says: "At the end of the month we will know, we don't know if it will be 3 or 6 months more".
1/3. Roscosmos officially determined the #SoyuzMS24 and #SoyuzMS25 crews. Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and Loral O'Hara will arrive at the ISS on MS-24 in September 2023. Loral will return to Earth on the same spacecraft in March 2024, and Kononenko and Chub will stay for a year.
2/3. Oleg Novitsky, a Belarusian citizen and Tracy Dyson will fly to the station in March 2024 on Soyuz MS-25. After a "short time" Novitsky, O'Hara and the Balarusian cosmonaut will return to Earth on MS-24, and Dyson, Chub and Kononenko will return on MS-25 in September 2024.
3/3. The name of the Belarusian cosmonaut is not officially published, but insiders believe, it will be Marina Vasilevskaya, and Anastasia Lenkova will be her backup.
What about date in the header of topic?
Soyuz MS-24 launch schedule on September 15 at 15:44 UTC from Crew-7 and O'Hara crews briefing at:https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=55543.msg2508460#msg2508460
