The next flight of the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft will take place on September 15

The next flight of the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) will take place on September 15, Roskomos reported.

According to the approved flight program for the Russian segment of the ISS, Soyuz MS-24 with cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub and NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara should fly to the station on September 15.

In addition, several spacewalks of Russian cosmonauts are planned in the spring and summer, the state corporation specified. They will have to complete the integration of the Nauka multi-purpose laboratory module into the Russian segment of the ISS. The module will be equipped with an additional radiation heat exchanger and an airlock, the equipment will be transferred from the Rassvet module.

On May 24 and August 23, the launches of the “trucks” Progress MS-23 and Progress MS-24 are scheduled, it also follows from the program.

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