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).

The launch was performed from Launch Site 31 (Baykonur Cosmodrome Site 31). The “Soyuz MS-24” space vehicle is to dock with the International Space Station in about 3 hours after the launch. Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, Loral O'Hara will join current ISS expedition members Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin, Francisco Rubio, Jasmin Moghbeli, Andreas Mogensen, Satoshi Furukawa, Konstantin Borisov.