Roscosmos cosmonauts 0leg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub and NASA astronaut LoralO' Hara launched on the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft atop a Soyuz 2.1 a rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on September 15.
Following a two-orbit rendezvous, the trio docked to the Rassvet module of the International Space Station where they will conduct long-duration missions aboard the orbital outpost.