MOSCOW, May 29 A Belarusian cosmonaut will fly to the International Space Station together with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and American Tracy Dyson on the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft in March 2024, journalists were told in the press service of Roskosmos.
Earlier, the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (CTC) announced that the crew included the Belarusian cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya, Anastasia Lenkova was appointed as her understudy. However, this information disappeared from the CPC website later.
«The main crew of the 21st visiting expedition included Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, a citizen of the Republic of Belarus and NASA astronaut Tracey Dyson. They are to fly to the ISS in March 2024 on the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft,» the report says. br />
After a short expedition at the station, Novitsky and the Belarusian cosmonaut will return to Earth on the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft, and Dyson will continue flying to the ISS until September 2024. She will return on the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft. 25″ together with cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, who before that will fly to the station on the Soyuz MS-24 and spend a year there.
Earlier, Belavia flight attendant Vasilevskaya and children's surgeon Lenkova were included in the shortlist of six candidates for space flights, selected in Belarus from more than 3,000 applicants.