On September 21, 2022 at 13:54 UTC the Russian “Soyuz MS-22” 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 Sergey Prokopyev (center); flight-engineer 1, Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Petelin (right); flight-engineer 2, US astronaut Francisco Rubio (left).

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The launch was performed from Launch Site 31 (Baykonur Cosmodrome Site 31). The “Soyuz MS-22” space vehicle is to dock with the International Space Station in about 3 hours after the launch. Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin, Francisco Rubio will join current ISS expedition members Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev, Sergey Korsakov, Kjell N. Lindgren, Robert Hines, Jessica Watkins, Samantha Cristoforetti