EXPEDITION SPACE STATION CREW'S SOYUZ ROCKET ROLLS TO THE PAD

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz 2.1a rocket that will launch the Soyuz MS-24 crew to the International Space Station rolled out from its integration building to the launch pad Sept. 12 for final preparations. While the roll out took place, members of the Expedition 69-70 crew, Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineer Nikolai Chub of Roscosmos and NASA Flight Engineer Loral 0' Hara and their backups, Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Tracy C. Dyson of NASA participated in final prelaunch training activities.