On September 28, 2021 the Russian “Soyuz MS-18” spacecraft was successfully redocked from the "Rassvet” module to the Russian “Nauka” module. The operations were carried out manually by Soyuz commander, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novickiy. During the operations on board the Soyuz MS-18 there were also flight engineers, Russian cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov and American astronaut Mark Vande Hei. The undocking command was issued at 12:21 UTC. The Soyuz departed from the station, flew around it, and docked to the “Nauka” module at 13:04 UTC. It was the first docking to the “Nauka” module which had arrived in July 2021. The relocation maneuver cleared the way for the “Soyuz MS-19” crew spacecraft to dock with the “Rassvet” module at the space station in October. During the redocking, the 4 other ISS’s crew members (American astronauts Robert Kimbrough and Katherine Megan McArthur, Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet) were on board the station. Attachments: |