MOSCOW, March 21 Launch of the Soyuz-2.1a rocket with the spacecraft » Soyuz MS-25″ with the Russian-Belarusian-American crew from Baikonur to the International Space Station has been cancelled, follows from the Roscosmos broadcast.
«»Attention at the launch complex. The launch has been automatically canceled. Bring the launch complex units to their original state «Prepare to be parked for 24 hours,» the announcer said.
The launch was planned for 16.21 Moscow time on Thursday.
To the main crew The ship included Russian Oleg Novitsky, Belarusian Marina Vasilevskaya and American Tracy Dyson. Vasilevskaya was to become the first woman in the history of Belarus to be in space.
Initially it was planned that Novitsky and Vasilevskaya would spend 12 days on the ISS and return to Earth on April 2 on the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft «, now docked at the station, along with the American Loral O'Hara, who arrived on it on September 15, 2023. Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub who arrived with her will spend more than a year at the station and return with Dyson on the Soyuz MS-25.