Spacecraft with Russian and American crew members successfully docks with the ISS

A spacecraft carrying an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts took off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan late on Wednesday, September 11, and docked with the International Space Station (ISS).

The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft was carrying NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Russians Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner.

It is planned that the crew will spend 202 days on board International Space Station (ISS) and return on April 1, 2025.

For the six-month mission, 42 scientific experiments are planned, three of them will be conducted for the first time, Roscomos Russian Space agency said in a statement.

This is the third space mission for Ovchinin, second for Vagner and fourth for Pettit.

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