▶️ The Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle with the Soyuz MS-26 manned spacecraft and three crew members of the 72nd long-term expedition

▶️ The Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle with the Soyuz MS-26 manned spacecraft and three crew members of the 72nd long-term expedition on the ISS has been successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

The flight to the ISS will proceed under an ultra-short scheme - it is expected that the spaceship will dock to the universal node module Prichal of the Russian segment of the station at about 10:33 p.m. Moscow time (7:33 p.m. GMT).

Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner (TASS special correspondent on the ISS) and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit are on board the spacecraft.

Video: Roscosmos/TASS

Source: TASS Russian news agency
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