After abort at the last second: Russian Soyuz rocket launches to the ISS today. As of: March 23, 2024, 11:16 a.m.
GMT. The mission will mark the first time that two women will fly aboard a Soyuz capsule to humanity's outpost 400 kilometers above Earth. The flight will also be a first for Belarus, which is an ally of Russia: Marina Vasilevskaya, who works as a flight attendant at the state-owned company Belavia, is the first woman in her country to fly into space.