The Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said the country's Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) in automatic mode on March 25.
According to Roscosmos' announcement, the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft carried three astronauts Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, Oleg Novitsky of Russia and Tracy Dyson of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the ISS. Among them, astronaut Vasilevskaya became the first Belarusian woman to set foot in space.
Astronauts Novitsky and Vasilevskaya are expected to stay on the ISS for 12 days, then return to Earth on April 6 with NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara on the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft. Astronaut Dyson's mission will last until September this year, then he will return to Earth with Russian astronauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolay Chub.
Russia's Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 23. The launch was originally scheduled for March 21 but was canceled at the last minute. Roscosmos chief Yuri Borisov said a sudden drop in power supply caused the spacecraft's safety systems to abort the launch at the last minute.