Moscow – A trio of Russian and astronaut astronauts are waiting for the four to arrive at the International Espacial Station.
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and the Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov departed at the scheduled time, at 12:42, aboard the Soyuz MS-18 hub from the Baikonur launch base, equipped by Russia, of Kazakhstan.
It is assumed that the capsule is connected to the orbital laboratory through a route of three hours and orbits.
This is the second special mission for Vande Hei, the third for Novitskiy and the first for Dubrov.
During his stay at the EEI, he worked on science, biology, biotechnology, physics and science experiments in the Tierra.
The launch takes place three days before the 60th anniversary of the first human space shuttle, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, and the 40th anniversary of the launch of a special NASA transporter.
The NASA Space Station includes NASA members Kate Rubins, Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker; the cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, and the astronaut of the Soichi Noguchi Aeroespacial Exploration Agency.
Rubins, Ryzhikov and Kud-Sverchkov will play another round of caps in October, and Hopkins, Glover, Walker and Noguchi – the crew of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience – will join in November.