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A Soyuz MS-25 conveyance successfully launched from nan Baikonur Cosmodrome successful Kazakhstan connected Saturday and is scheduled to dock pinch nan International Space Station Monday. Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA-EFE
March 23 (UPI) -- A Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft headed to nan International Space Station successfully launched from nan Baikonur Cosmodrome successful Kazakhstan connected Saturday and has entered near-Earth orbit, officials said.
The spacecraft, crewed by NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, lifted disconnected astatine 8:36 a.m. EDT, nan Russian authorities news agency TASS reported.
The spacecraft is scheduled to dock pinch nan abstraction station's Prichal nodal module astatine astir 11:09 a.m. connected Monday, according to NASA.
Vasilevskaya is Belarus' first astronaut to subordinate a abstraction mission. She and Novitskiy are scheduled to walk 12 days connected nan abstraction position earlier returning to Earth connected nan Soyuz MS-24 on pinch NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara connected April 6.
Dyson is scheduled to return pinch Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and Nikolay Chub successful September.
Saturday's successful motorboat occurred 2 days aft an first motorboat was scrubbed 20 seconds anterior to liftoff Thursday.
NASA spokesperson Rob Navias said nan engines did not occurrence arsenic intended, which triggered an automatic abort system. Roscosmos engineers removed nan unit and secured nan rocket aft ceasing fueling operations Thursday.
