NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus are safely in orbit on the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft after launching at 8:36 a.m. EDT on March 23, 2024, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (5:36 p.m. Baikonur time).
Musa Khiramanovich Manarov, a former cosmonaut who spent 541 days in space, was born on March 22, 1951, in Baku, Azerbaijan. Manarov attended the Moscow Aviation institute from 1969 to 1974, graduating as an engineer. He then went to work in the Korolev