The Soyuz programme is a human spaceflight programme initiated by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s. The Soyuz spacecraft was originally part of a Moon landing project intended to put a Soviet cosmonaut on the Moon. It was the third Soviet human spaceflight programme after the Vostok and Voskhod programmes.
The Soviet space program, was the national space program of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) actived from 1930s until disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Soviet Union's space program was mainly based on the cosmonautic exploration of space and the development of the expandable launch vehicles, which had been split between many design bureaus competing against each other. Over its 60-years of history, the Russian program was responsible for a number of pioneering feats and accomplishments in the human space flight, including the first intercontinental ballistic missile (R-7), first satellite (Sputnik 1), first animal in Earth orbit (the dog Laika on Sputnik 2), first human in space and Earth orbit (cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1), first woman in space and Earth orbit (cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova on Vostok 6), first spacewalk (cosmonaut Alexei Leonov on Voskhod 2), first Moon impact (Luna 2), first image of the far side of the Moon (Luna 3) and unmanned lunar soft landing (Luna 9), first space rover (Lunokhod 1), first sample of lunar soil automatically extracted and brought to Earth (Luna 16), and first space station (Salyut 1). Further notable records included the first interplanetary probes: Venera 1 and Mars 1 to fly by Venus and Mars, respectively, Venera 3 and Mars 2 to impact the respective planet surface, and Venera 7 and Mars 3 to make soft landings on these planets.
The Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities, commonly known as Roscosmos, is the governmental body responsible for the space science program of the Russian Federation and general aerospace research. Soyuz has many launch locations the Russian sites are Baikonur, Plesetsk and Vostochny however Ariane also purchases the vehicle and launches it from French Guiana.
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The Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station carrying three Expedition 62 crew members : ROSCOSMOS cosmonauts Anatoli Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner as well as NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy.
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The Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft carrying ROSCOSMOS cosmonauts Anatoli Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner as well as NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy will land back on Earth near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
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The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft will be relocated from the Rassvet module to the Poisk module. Undocking scheduled at 16:43 UTC, redocking scheduled at 17:13 UTC.
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The Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft will dock to the International Space Station carrying three new Expedition 65 crew members : ROSCOSMOS cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov as well as NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei.
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The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station carrying Expedition 64 crew members ROSCOSMOS cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov as well as NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins.
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The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft carrying ROSCOSMOS cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov as well as NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins will land back on Earth near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
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The Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft will be relocated from the Rassvet module to the Nauka module.
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The Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft will dock to the International Space Station carrying ROSCOSMOS cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov as Expeditions 65/66 crew member as well as film director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild.
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The Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station carrying Expedition 65 crew member ROSCOSMOS cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy as well as film director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild.
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The Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft carrying ROSCOSMOS cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy as well as film director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild will land back on Earth near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
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The Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station carrying ROSCOSMOS cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin as well as Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa and his cameraman Yozo Hirano.
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The Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft carrying ROSCOSMOS cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin as well as Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa and his cameraman Yozo Hirano will land back on Earth near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
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The Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft will dock to the International Space Station carrying ROSCOSMOS cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and a third crewmate.
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The Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station carrying ROSCOSMOS cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov as well as NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei.
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The Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft carrying ROSCOSMOS cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov as well as NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei will land back on Earth near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
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The Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft will dock to the International Space Station carrying ROSCOSMOS cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitriy Petelin as well as NASA astronaut Francisco Rubio.
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The Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station carrying ROSCOSMOS cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and a third crewmate.
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The Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft carrying ROSCOSMOS cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and a third crewmate will land back on Earth near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
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NASA will host a media teleconference to discuss the ongoing investigation of an external leak that occurred Dec. 14, from the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft docked to the Rassvet module of the International Space Station.
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NASA and Roscosmos will host a media teleconference to discuss results from the investigation of the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-22 external coolant leak and the forward strategy for uninterrupted human operations aboard the International Space Station.
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The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft will autonomously dock to the International Space Station to replace the damaged Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft as a ride home for ROSCOSMOS cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitriy Petelin as well as NASA astronaut Francisco Rubio.
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The Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station ahead of reentry and landing in Kazakhstan.
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The Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft will land back on Earth near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
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The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft will be relocated from the Poisk module to the Pirchal module. Undocking scheduled at 8:42 UTC, redocking scheduled at 9:21 UTC.
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The Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft will autonomously dock to the International Space Station.
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The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station ahead of reentry and landing in Kazakhstan.
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The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft will land back on Earth near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
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The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft will autonomously dock to the International Space Station.
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NASA will livestream the farewell ceremony and hatch closing of the Soyuz MS-24 crew ahead of its return to Earth.
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The Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station ahead of reentry and landing in Kazakhstan.
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The Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft will land back on Earth near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
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The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft will autonomously dock to the International Space Station.
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NASA will livestream the farewell ceremony and hatch closing of the Soyuz MS-25 crew ahead of its return to Earth.
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The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station ahead of reentry and landing in Kazakhstan.
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The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft will land back on Earth near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.