On September 27, 2023 at 07:54 UTC, the Russian “Soyuz MS-23” spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station to deliver to Earth the 3 members of Expedition 69 – Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin as well as US astronaut Francisco Rubio.

On September 15, 2023 at 18:53 UTC, the Russian "Soyuz MS-24” spacecraft docked with the Russian “Rassvet” module of the International Space Station. The spacecraft delivered 3 members of Expedition 69/70 to the ISS, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub as well as US astronaut Loral O'Hara. The new comers joined current ISS Expedition 69 members – Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin, Francisco Rubio, Jasmin Moghbeli, Andreas Mogensen, Satoshi Furukawa and Konstantin Borisov. The 10 crew members will work together till September 27. After a “handover,” Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and Loral O'Hara will replace Prokopyev, Petelin and Rubio, who plan to return to Earth aboard the “Soyuz MS-23” on September 27.

On September 15, 2023 at 15:44 UTC the Russian “Soyuz MS-24” spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The space vehicle was orbited by the Russian “Soyuz-2.1a” rocket-carrier. The spacecraft is piloted by 3 cosmonauts: Commander, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko (center); flight-engineer 1, Russian cosmonaut Nikolai Chub (right); flight-engineer 2, US astronaut Loral O'Hara (left).

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On September 12, 2023 at 02:13 UTC, the Chinese “Tianzhou-5” unmanned supply spacecraft was deorbited. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft drowned in the remote area of the Pacific.

On September 11, 2023 at 08:46 UTC the Chinese “Tianzhou-5” unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the forward docking port of “Tianhe” core module (Chinese Tiangong Space Station).