ROSCOSMOS - Soyuz MS-21 Mission patch.
March 19, 2022
Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev, and Sergey Korsakov on the Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft docked to the International Space Station at 3:12 p.m. EDT while the station was traveling 260 miles over eastern Kazakhstan.
Soyuz MS-21 hatch opening
The Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft hatch was opened on 18 March 2022, at 21:48 UTC (17:48 EDT; 19 March, at 00:48 MSK). Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov begin a six-and-a-half-month mission on the International Space Station (ISS).
The trio joins Expedition 66 Commander Anton Shkaplerov and cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, as well as NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, and Kayla Barron, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer.
Soyuz MS-21 hatch opening
On March 30, a Soyuz spacecraft will return as scheduled carrying NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov back to Earth. Upon their return, Vande Hei will hold the American record for the longest single human spaceflight mission of 355 days.
Related article:
Russian Trio Launches on Express Trip to Station & Soyuz Trio Docks to Station
https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/2022/03/russian-trio-launches-on-express-trip.html
Related links:
Prichal module: https://go.nasa.gov/3cOCFx6
International Space Station (ISS): https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html
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