Soyuz MS-25 with Belarusian cosmonaut en route to ISS

March 23, Pozirk. The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft with Belarusian Maryna Vasileŭskaja on board has been successfully launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome at 3:36 pm GMT+3.

Docking with the International Space Station is scheduled for 6:10 pm on March 25.

The crew also includes Oleg Novitsky of Roscosmos and NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson.

The spacecraft was expected to lift off on March 21, but an automatic abort command was issued.

Originally planned for March 2023, the Belarusian’s spaceflight has been postponed several times.

Vasileŭskaja, a flight attendant for the Biełavija airline, is expected to return on April 6.