(Reuters) -A Russian spacecraft blasted off from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur cosmodrome on Friday carrying two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut to hitch the crew of the Worldwide Area Station (ISS), reside TV photos confirmed.
At 1853 GMT the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft with American Loral O’Hara and Russians Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub on board docked on the ISS, Russia’s Roscosmos house company mentioned.
They’ll be a part of the present crew of NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Frank Rubio, Russian cosmonauts Dmitry Petelin, Konstantin Borisov and Sergei Prokopyev, in addition to Denmark’s Andreas Mogensen and Japan’s Satoshi Furukawa.
O’Hara and Chub are on their first spaceflight, whereas Kononenko is on his fifth.
Russia’s house programme suffered a serious setback final month when its Luna-25 spacecraft crashed throughout an try to land close to the south pole of the moon within the nation’s first lunar mission in 47 years.
The ISS is likely one of the few worldwide initiatives on which america and Russia nonetheless cooperate carefully. Relations in different areas have damaged down since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, to which Washington responded by arming Kyiv and imposing successive rounds of sanctions on Moscow.
(Reporting by Reuters; Modifying by William Maclean and Mark Porter)
