NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and Belarusian spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya, have successfully launched to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The crew, comprising of Dyson, Novitskiy, and Vasilevskaya, embarked on their journey on Saturday, March 23, at 8:36 a.m. EDT. Originally scheduled for March 21, the launch was postponed due to an electrical issue, but it proceeded without a hitch two days later.

Using the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, the trio will dock at the space station's Prichal module on Monday, March 25, at approximately 11:09 a.m. Docking coverage will be provided by NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's website, starting at 10:15 a.m. Additionally, NASA will broadcast the crew welcome ceremony on NASA+ at 1:15 p.m. once they are aboard the ISS.

Upon arrival, the new crew members will join the existing team on the space station, which includes NASA astronauts Loral O'Hara, Matthew Dominick, Mike Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, and Alexander Grebenkin.

Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya are scheduled to stay aboard the station for 12 days before returning to Earth. They will provide transportation for O'Hara, who will depart on April 6 via the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft, landing with the help of parachutes on the steppe of Kazakhstan.

Dyson, on the other hand, will spend the next six months aboard the ISS as an Expedition 70 and 71 flight engineer. She is expected to return to Earth in September along with Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub of Roscosmos, who have been on a year-long mission on the space laboratory.

This marks Dyson's third spaceflight, Novitskiy's fourth, and Vasilevskaya's first. As they embark on their respective missions, these astronauts will continue to push the boundaries of space exploration and contribute to important research on the International Space Station.