A Russian spacecraft successfully docked at the International Space Station on Monday, carrying three astronauts on board. The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, which included NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Russian Oleg Novitsky, and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, reached the space outpost following a smooth journey from the Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan. This successful docking came after an aborted launch attempt two days earlier, which was halted by an automatic safety system just before liftoff, with no danger posed to the crew.
The head of the Russian space agency, Yuri Borisov, explained that the launch abort was due to a voltage drop in a power source. The three newly arrived astronauts join the current station crew, which includes NASA astronauts Loral O’Hara, Matthew Dominick, Mike Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, as well as Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, and Alexander Grebenkin.
