The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft with Belarusian Marina Vasilevskaya on board launched from Baikonur on 23 March. The spacecraft is carrying Commander Roscosmos’ Oleg Novitsky, Belarusian spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya and NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson. The backup crew included Roscosmos cosmonaut Ivan Vagner, space flight participant Anastasia Lenkova of Belarus and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit. The return of Oleg Novitsky, Marina Vasilevskaya and NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, who has been on the ISS for a long time, is scheduled on the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on 6 April.
