Soyuz MS-24

2023 Russian crewed spaceflight to the ISS

Soyuz MS-24
Spacecraft properties
Soyuz MS-24 approaching the ISS
Names	ISS 70S

Mission type	ISS crew transport
Operator	Roscosmos
COSPAR ID	2023-143A
SATCAT no.	57862
Mission duration	203 days, 15 hours, 33 minutes and 12 seconds


Spacecraft	Soyuz MS-25 No. 755
Spacecraft type	Soyuz MS
Manufacturer	Energia


Crew
Crew size	3
Members	Loral O'Hara
Launching	Oleg Kononenko Nikolai Chub
Landing	Oleg Novitsky Marina Vasilevskaya
Callsign	Antares


Start of mission
Launch date	15 September 2023, 15:44:35 (15 September 2023, 15:44:35) UTC
Rocket	Soyuz 2.1a
Launch site	Baikonur, Site 31/6
Contractor	Progress


End of mission
Landing date	6 April 2024, 07:17:47 (6 April 2024, 07:17:47) UTC
Landing site	Kazakh Steppe, Kazakhstan (47°25′6.12″N 69°38′56.22″E / 47.4183667°N 69.6489500°E / 47.4183667; 69.6489500)


Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric orbit
Regime	Low Earth orbit
Inclination	51.659°


Docking with ISS
Docking port	Rassvet nadir
Docking date	15 September 2023, 18:53:32 UTC
Undocking date	6 April 2024, 03:54:58 UTC
Time docked	203 days, 9 hours, 1 minute and 26 seconds

Mission patches: launch (left) and landing (right) Top: launching crew, from left: O'Hara, Kononenko and Chub Bottom: landing crew, from left: O'Hara, Novitsky and Vasilevskaya Soyuz programme (crewed) ← Soyuz MS-23 Soyuz MS-25 →

Soyuz MS-24, Russian production No. 755 and identified by NASA as Soyuz 70S, was a Russian crewed Soyuz spaceflight launched from Baikonur on 15 September 2023 to the International Space Station.^[1]

Crew

They were originally assigned to Soyuz MS-23 mission, but they were moved to MS-24 due to a coolant leak on Soyuz MS-22 that required MS-23 to be launched uncrewed as its replacement. Oleg Kononenko is assigned for a one year long mission with his MS-24 crewmate Nikolai Chub that started on September 15, 2023. As the mission lasts 374 days, Kononenko will have spent a total of 1,111 days in space. He exceeded the previous record of 878 days held by Gennady Padalka on 4 February 2024. He later became the first person to stay 900 and 1,000 days in space on 25 February 2024 and 4 June 2024.

Prime crew
Position	Launching crew member	Landing crew member
Commander	Oleg Kononenko, Roscosmos Expedition 69/70/71 Fifth spaceflight	Oleg Novitsky, Roscosmos 21st Visiting Expedition Fourth spaceflight
Flight Engineer/ Spaceflight Participant	Nikolai Chub, Roscosmos Expedition 69/70/71 First spaceflight	Marina Vasilevskaya, Belarus Space Agency^[2] 21st Visiting Expedition First spaceflight
Flight Engineer	Loral O'Hara, NASA Expedition 69/70 First spaceflight

Backup crew
Position	Crew member
Commander	Aleksey Ovchinin, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer	Tracy Caldwell-Dyson, NASA^[3]

Undocking and Return

After completing her expedition, O'Hara returned to Earth on 6 April 2024 with Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and Belarusian spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya (both on ISS EP-21) on the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft. On the other hand, Kononenko and Chub will remain aboard the ISS orbital laboratory for about one year and return with NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell-Dyson on the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft. As the mission lasts 374 days, Kononenko will have spent a total of 1,111 days in space. He exceeded the previous record of 878 days held by Gennady Padalka on 4 February 2024. He later became the first person to stay 900 and 1,000 days in space on 25 February 2024 and 4 June 2024 respectively.^[4]

References

^ Zak, Anatoly (13 February 2023). "Space exploration in 2023". RussianSpaceWeb. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
^ "Belarusian female astronaut to go ISS in March 2024 — Roscosmos". TASS. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
^ Imgur. "imgur.com". Imgur. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
^ "Better Late Than Never: New ISS Crew Prepares to Fly, All-Female EVAs Possible in October – AmericaSpace". www.americaspace.com. 10 September 2023. Retrieved 19 September 2023.

People currently in low Earth orbit

International Space Station
(Expedition 71)

Soyuz MS-24/MS-25	Oleg Kononenko Nikolai Chub
SpaceX Crew-8	Matthew Dominick Michael Barratt Jeanette Epps Alexander Grebenkin
Soyuz MS-25	Tracy Caldwell Dyson
Boeing CFT	Barry E. Wilmore Sunita Williams
Soyuz MS-26	Aleksey Ovchinin Ivan Vagner Donald Pettit

Tiangong space station
(Expedition 7)

Shenzhou 18	Ye Guangfu Li Cong Li Guangsu

ISS expeditions
Spaceflights to the ISS
- crewed
- uncrewed
ISS spacewalks
ISS visitors
ISS year-long mission
Spaceflights in Tiangong Program
Spaceflights to the Tiangong
Tiangong expeditions

Soyuz programme

Main topics

Soyuz (rocket family)
Soyuz (spacecraft)
Baikonur Cosmodrome
- Site 1/5
- Site 31/6
Soyuz abort modes
Cosmonaut ranks and positions

Past missions
(by spacecraft type)

Soyuz 7K-OK (1966–1970)	Kosmos 133† Soyuz 7K-OK No.1† (uncrewed) Kosmos 140 Soyuz 1† Kosmos 186 188 212 213 238 Soyuz 2 (uncrewed) 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Soyuz 7K-L1 (1967–1970) (Zond lunar programme)	Kosmos 146 154† Zond 1967A† 1967B† Zond 4 1968A† 1968B† 5 6 1969A† Zond-M 1† M 2† Zond 7 8 9 10
Soyuz 7K-L1E (1969–1970)	Soyuz 7K-L1E No.1† Kosmos 382
Soyuz 7K-LOK (1971–1972)	Soyuz 7K-LOK No.1† No.2†
Soyuz 7K-OKS (1971)	Soyuz 10† 11†
Soyuz 7K-T (1972–1981)	Kosmos 496 573 Soyuz 12 Kosmos 613 Soyuz 13 Kosmos 656 Soyuz 14 15† 17 18a† 18 20 (uncrewed) 21 23† 24 25† 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 (uncrewed landing) 33† 34 (uncrewed launch) 35 36 37 38 39 40
Soyuz 7K-TM (1974–1976)	Kosmos 638 672 Soyuz 16 19 (Apollo–Soyuz) 22
Soyuz 7K-S (1974–1976)	Kosmos 670 772† 869†
Soyuz-T (1978–1986)	Kosmos 1001† 1074 Soyuz T-1 (uncrewed) T-2 T-3 T-4 T-5 T-6 T-7 T-8† T-9 T-10a† T-10 T-11 T-12 T-13 T-14 T-15
Soyuz-TM (1986–2002)	Soyuz TM-1 (uncrewed) TM-2 TM-3 TM-4 TM-5 TM-6 TM-7 TM-8 TM-9 TM-10 TM-11 TM-12 TM-13 TM-14 TM-15 TM-16 TM-17 TM-18 TM-19 TM-20 TM-21 TM-22 TM-23 TM-24 TM-25 TM-26 TM-27 TM-28 TM-29 TM-30 TM-31 TM-32 TM-33 TM-34
Soyuz-TMA (2002–2012)	Soyuz TMA-1 TMA-2 TMA-3 TMA-4 TMA-5 TMA-6 TMA-7 TMA-8 TMA-9 TMA-10 TMA-11 TMA-12 TMA-13 TMA-14 TMA-15 TMA-16 TMA-17 TMA-18 TMA-19 TMA-20 TMA-21 TMA-22
Soyuz-TMA-M (2010–2016)	Soyuz TMA-01M TMA-02M TMA-03M TMA-04M TMA-05M TMA-06M TMA-07M TMA-08M TMA-09M TMA-10M TMA-11M TMA-12M TMA-13M TMA-14M TMA-15M TMA-16M TMA-17M TMA-18M TMA-19M TMA-20M
Soyuz MS (2016–present)	Soyuz MS-01 MS-02 MS-03 MS-04 MS-05 MS-06 MS-07 MS-08 MS-09 MS-10† MS-11 MS-12 MS-13 MS-14 (uncrewed) MS-15 MS-16 MS-17 MS-18 MS-19 MS-20 MS-21 MS-22 (uncrewed landing) MS-23 (uncrewed launch) MS-24

Current missions

MS-25
MS-26

Future missions

2025
- MS-27
- MS-28
2026
- MS-29

Uncrewed missions are designated as Kosmos instead of Soyuz; exceptions are noted "(uncrewed)".
The † sign designates failed missions. Italics designates cancelled missions.

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See also: ISS expeditions, Uncrewed ISS flights
1998–2004	1998 STS-88 1999 STS-96 2000 STS-101 106 92 Soyuz TM-31 STS-97 2001 STS-98 102 100 Soyuz TM-32 STS-104 105 Soyuz TM-33 STS-108 2002 STS-110 Soyuz TM-34 STS-111 112 Soyuz TMA-1 STS-113 2003 Soyuz TMA-2 TMA-3 2004 Soyuz TMA-4 TMA-5	International Space Station Insignia International Space Station Emblem
2005–2009	2005 Soyuz TMA-6 STS-114 Soyuz TMA-7 2006 Soyuz TMA-8 STS-121 115 Soyuz TMA-9 STS-116 2007 Soyuz TMA-10 STS-117 118 Soyuz TMA-11 STS-120 2008 STS-122 123 Soyuz TMA-12 STS-124 Soyuz TMA-13 STS-126 2009 STS-119 Soyuz TMA-14 TMA-15 STS-127 128 Soyuz TMA-16 STS-129 Soyuz TMA-17
2010–2014	2010 STS-130 Soyuz TMA-18 STS-131 132 Soyuz TMA-19 TMA-01M TMA-20 2011 STS-133 Soyuz TMA-21 STS-134 Soyuz TMA-02M STS-135 Soyuz TMA-22 TMA-03M 2012 Soyuz TMA-04M TMA-05M TMA-06M TMA-07M 2013 Soyuz TMA-08M TMA-09M TMA-10M TMA-11M 2014 Soyuz TMA-12M TMA-13M TMA-14M TMA-15M
2015–2019	2015 Soyuz TMA-16M TMA-17M TMA-18M TMA-19M 2016 Soyuz TMA-20M MS-01 MS-02 MS-03 2017 Soyuz MS-04 MS-05 MS-06 MS-07 2018 Soyuz MS-08 MS-09 MS-10† MS-11 2019 Soyuz MS-12 MS-13 MS-15
Since 2020	2020 Soyuz MS-16 SpaceX Demo-2 Soyuz MS-17 SpaceX Crew-1 2021 Soyuz MS-18 SpaceX Crew-2 Soyuz MS-19 SpaceX Crew-3 Soyuz MS-20 2022 Soyuz MS-21 Axiom-1 SpaceX Crew-4 Soyuz MS-22 SpaceX Crew-5 2023 Soyuz MS-23 SpaceX Crew-6 Axiom-2 SpaceX Crew-7 Soyuz MS-24 2024 Axiom-3 SpaceX Crew-8 Soyuz MS-25 Boeing Crew Flight Test Soyuz MS-26
Future	2024 SpaceX Crew-9 2025 SpaceX Crew-10 Soyuz MS-27 Axiom-4 Boeing Starliner-1
Individuals	List of ISS visitors crew
Vehicles	Past Space Shuttle Present Boeing Starliner Crew Dragon Soyuz Future Orel
Ongoing spaceflights are in underline † - mission failed to reach ISS

v t e ← 2022 Orbital launches in 2023 2024 →
January	ION SCV-007 & 008 (Astrocast × 4), Orbiter SN1† (Unicorn-2G†, Unicorn-2H†), Vigoride-5, ICEYE × 3, Lynk Tower 03, Lynk Tower 04, ÑuSat × 4, Flock 4y × 36, KSF3 × 4, Gama Alpha, Lemur-2 × 6, Milspace-2 1, MilSpace-2 2, Platform 2, SpaceBEE × 12, Shijian 23 AMAN†, CIRCE 1†, CIRCE 2†, ForgeStar-0†, Prometheus 2A†, Prometheus 2B†, STORK-6† OneWeb L16 (40 satellites) Apstar 6E Yaogan 37, Shiyan 22A, Shiyan 22B Jilin-1 Gaofen-03D 34, Jilin-1 Hongwai-01A × 2, Jilin-1 Mofang-02A × 3 LDPE-3A, USA-342 / CBAS-2 USA-343 / GPS III-06 Starlink G2-4 (51 satellites) Hawk × 3 IGS-Radar 7 Starlink G5-2 (56 satellites) Starlink G2-6 (49 satellites), ION SCV-009
February	Starlink G5-3 (53 satellites) Elektro-L №4 Amazonas Nexus Progress MS-22 Starlink G5-4 (55 satellites) Starlink G2-5 (51 satellites) Inmarsat-6 F2 ChinaSat 26 Soyuz MS-23 Starlink G6-1 (21 satellites)
March	SpaceX Crew-6 Starlink G2-7 (51 satellites) Nahid-1† ALOS-3† OneWeb L17 (40 satellites) Olymp-K №2 / Luch-5X SpaceX CRS-27 Shiyan 19 Capella 9, Capella 10 Gaofen 13-02 Starlink G2-8 (52 satellites) SES-18, SES-19 Kosmos 2567 / Bars-M 4L BlackSky 18, BlackSky 19 Starlink G5-5 (56 satellites) OneWeb L18 (36 satellites) Ofeq-13 Kosmos 2568 / EO MKA №4 Starlink G5-10 (56 satellites) PIESAT-1A 01, PIESAT-1B × 3 Yaogan 34-04
April	SDA Transport Layer Tranche 0 × 8, SDA Tracking Layer Tranche 0 × 2 Intelsat 40e / TEMPO JUICE ION SCV-010 (Kepler-20, Kepler-21), Vigoride-6, Hawk × 3, İMECE, ÑuSat × 4, Brokkr-1, DEWA SAT-2, LacunaSat-2F, Lemur-2 × 3, Sateliot_0 / Platform 3, TAIFA-1 Fengyun 3G Starlink G6-2 (21 satellites) Starlink G3-5 (46 satellites) O3b mPOWER 3, O3b mPOWER 4
May	ViaSat-3.1 Starlink G5-6 (56 satellites) TROPICS 05, TROPICS 06 Tianzhou 6 Starlink G2-9 (51 satellites) BeiDou-3 G4 Starlink G6-3 (22 satellites) Iridium 9 (5 satellites), OneWeb L19 (15 satellites), JoeySat Axiom Mission 2 Progress MS-23 TROPICS 03, TROPICS 07 Kondor-FKA №1 Arabsat 7B (BADR-8) NVS-01 Shenzhou 16 Malligyong-1† Starlink G2-10 (52 satellites)
June	Starlink G6-4 (22 satellites) SpaceX CRS-28 (Maya-5, Maya-6) Shiyan 24A, Shiyan 24B Starlink G5-11 (52 satellites) ION SCV-011 (Unicorn-2I), Orbiter SN3, Blackjack Aces × 4, ICEYE × 4, ÑuSat × 4, GEISAT, Lemur-2 × 3, MISR-A, MISR-B, SpaceBEE × 12, Tiger-4, XVI Jilin-1 Gaofen-03D × 8, Jilin-1 Gaofen-06A × 30, Jilin-1 Pingtai-02A × 2 SATRIA Shiyan 25 Starlink G5-7 (47 satellites) USA-345 / Orion 11 Starlink G5-12 (56 satellites) Meteor-M №2-3
July	Euclid Syracuse 4B Starlink G5-13 (48 satellites) Starlink G6-5 (22 satellites) Chandrayaan-3 (Vikram, Pragyan) Starlink G5-15 (54 satellites) Lemur-2 × 2 Starlink G6-15 (15 satellites) Starlink G6-6 (22 satellites) Yaogan 36-05 (3 satellites) Starlink G6-7 (22 satellites) Jupiter-3 / EchoStar-24
August	Cygnus NG-19 Fengyun 3F Galaxy-37 Starlink G6-8 (22 satellites) Kosmos 2569 / GLONASS-K2 13L Starlink G6-20 (15 satellites) S-SAR 02 / Huanjing-2F Luna 25 Starlink G6-9 (22 satellites) Starlink G6-10 (22 satellites) Gaofen 12-04 Starlink G7-1 (21 satellites) Progress MS-24 Malligyong-1 F2† Acadia 1 Jilin-1 Kuanfu-02A SpaceX Crew-7 Starlink G6-11 (22 satellites) Yaogan 39-01 (3 satellites)
September	Starlink G6-13 (22 satellites) Aditya-L1 SDA Transport Layer Tranche 0 × 11, SDA Tracking Layer Tranche 0 × 2 Starlink G6-12 (21 satellites) Yaogan 33-03 XRISM, SLIM (LEV-1, LEV-2) Starlink G6-14 (22 satellites) Yaogan 40 (3 satellites) USA-346 / Silentbarker 1, USA-347 / Silentbarker 2, USA-348 / Silentbarker 3 Starlink G7-2 (21 satellites) Soyuz MS-24 Starlink G6-16 (22 satellites) Yaogan 39-02 (3 satellites) Acadia 2† Starlink G6-17 (22 satellites) Jilin-1 Gaofen-04B† Starlink G6-18 (22 satellites) Starlink G7-3 (21 satellites) Yaogan 33-04 Starlink G6-19 (22 satellites)
October	Yaogan 39-03 (3 satellites) Starlink G6-21 (22 satellites) KuiperSat-1, KuiperSat-2 THEOS-2, MACSAT Starlink G7-4 (21 satellites) Psyche Starlink G6-22 (22 satellites) Starlink G6-23 (22 satellites) Starlink G7-5 (21 satellites) Starlink G6-24 (23 satellites) Yaogan 39-04 (3 satellites) Shenzhou 17 Kosmos 2570 / Lotos-S1 №7 (Kosmos 2571) Starlink G7-6 (22 satellites) Starlink G6-25 (23 satellites)
November	TJS-10 Starlink G6-26 (23 satellites) Starlink G6-27 (23 satellites) ChinaSat 6E SpaceX CRS-29 ION SCV-015 (Lemur-2 NANAZ, OSW Cazorla, Unicorn-2J, Unicorn-2K), Aether-1, Aether-2, FalconSAT-X, ICEYE × 4, Pelican-1, B1B2 Barry, Flock-4q × 36, Lemur-2 × 10, PEARL-1C, PEARL-1H, Platform 5, STORK-7 / Aman-1 O3b mPOWER 5, O3b mPOWER 6 Haiyang-3A Starlink G6-28 (23 satellites) Starlink G7-7 (22 satellites) Malligyong-1 F3 Starlink G6-29 (23 satellites) Kosmos 2572 / Razdan 1 Starlink G6-30 (23 satellites)
December	Progress MS-25 ION SCV-012 (Unicorn × 3), EIRSAT-1, Hayasat-1 Starlink G6-31 (23 satellites) Starlink G6-33 (23 satellites) Starlink G7-8 (22 satellites) Yaogan 39-05 (3 satellites) Reusable Experimental Spacecraft Yaogan 41 Starlink G6-34 (23 satellites) Kosmos 2573 / Bars-M 5L Starlink G6-32 (23 satellites) SARah-2, SARah-3 Shiyan 24C-01, Shiyan 24C-02, Shiyan 24C-03 BeiDou-3 M25, BeiDou-3 M26 Kosmos 2574 / Razbeg No.1 USA-349 / X-37B OTV-7 Starlink G6-36 (23 satellites)
Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ). Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).