The Soyuz-2.1a rocket booster with the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft is set at the launch pad at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on September 12, 2023. The crew of Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and US astronaut Loral O’Hara is scheduled to blast off to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on September 15. (Photo by Andrey BORODULIN / AFP)