Soyuz MS-24

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Soyuz MS-24 is a Russian Soyuz spaceflight to the International Space Station with a crew of three planned for launch from Baikonur in March 2023.^[1]

Crew[]

The original three-Russian member crew was named in May 2021. This is thus likely to be a part of the Soyuz-Dragon crew swap system, that is, keeping at least one NASA astronaut and one Roscosmos cosmonaut on each of the crew rotation missions. That would ensure both countries would have a presence on the station, and ability to maintain their separate systems, if either Soyuz or commercial crew vehicles are grounded for an extended period.^[2] It is expected that Roscosmos would fly Nikolai Chub on board SpaceX Crew-6 and would leave his seat on board Soyuz MS-24 to a NASA astronaut as he is seen to be training at Johnson Space Center.

Position	Crew member
Commander	Oleg Kononenko, Roscosmos Expedition 69/70 Fifth spaceflight
Flight Engineer 1	Andrey Fedyaev, Roscosmos Expedition 69/70 First spaceflight
Flight Engineer 2	To be announced, NASA Expedition 69/70 TBA spaceflight

Backup crew[]

Position	Crew member
Commander	TBA, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 1	TBA, Roscosmos
Flight Engineer 2	To be announced, NASA

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