MOSCOW. May 29 (Interfax) - Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub will be sent to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft in September 2023 and will return to Earth on board Soyuz MS-25 in the fall of 2024, Roscosmos said on Monday.
"Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub will stay on the station until September 2024, and will return aboard Soyuz MS-25. Therefore, Kononenko and Chub's ISS mission will last for a year," the state corporation's press service said.
Another member of the Soyuz MS-24 crew is NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, who will return to Earth aboard Soyuz MS-24 in March 2024 along with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and Belarusian cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya.