Crewed Soyuz Spacecraft Launches, Trio Headed to Space Station

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The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 12:23 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 11. Credit: NASA

Crewed Soyuz Spacecraft Launches, Trio Headed to Space Station

Soyuz MS-26 is the 78th overall mission for the Soyuz 2.1a rocket subtype and the 11th crewed spaceflight — counting Virgin Galactic and New Shepard suborbital missions — this year. It is also the fifth mission of 2024 for this Soyuz subtype as well. After MS-26 launched, its crew has now joined the nine crew members on ISS, three on Tiangong, and four on Polaris Dawn in orbit. This has set a new record of 19 people on orbit at one time.

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