Space Stations

Soyuz MS-22 Leaves Earth For the Space Station

By Keith Cowing
Press Release
NASA
September 21, 2022
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Soyuz MS-22 Leaves Earth For the Space Station
Soyuz MS-22 Launch
NASA

The Soyuz MS-22 rocket launched to the International Space Station with Expedition 68 astronaut Frank Rubio of NASA, and cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin of Roscosmos onboard.

The launch occurred on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Rubio, Prokopyev, and Petelin will spend approximately six months on the orbital complex, returning to Earth in March 2023.

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