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1 of 3 | NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson (L) and Belarus spaceflight subordinate Marina Vasilevskaya cheque their spacesuits earlier their motorboat to nan International Space Station connected March 23. Pool Photo by Pavel Mikheyev/EPA-EFE
March 25 (UPI) -- Three astronauts connected committee Russia's Soyuz MS-25 made it safely to nan International Space Station astir 250 miles supra world aft a astir two-day orbital journey.
The spacecraft -- which carried NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy -- docked astatine 11:03 a.m. EDT aft a 50 hr trip from Kazakhstan, a erstwhile Soviet outer authorities southbound of Russia that borders China.
Joining them astatine nan abstraction position are 7 different unit members of Expedition 70 who already are successful orbit.
Dyson is expected to walk nan adjacent six months arsenic a formation technologist earlier her return successful September accompanied by cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub of Roscosmos, who will person ended their year-long abstraction missions, according to NASA.
But Novitskiy, whose 4th flight to abstraction this was, and Vasilevskaya who is now connected her first, will beryllium successful abstraction for conscionable 12 days.
The 2 newly-arrived astronauts will return to world successful a parachute-assisted landing astatine a Kazakh guidelines on pinch NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, who will person had 204 days successful abstraction by nan clip she lands.
