A Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle launched the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, on 21 September 2022, at 13:54 UTC (18:54 local time, 09:54 EDT). Soyuz MS-22, with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is scheduled to autonomously dock to the Rassvet module of the International Space Station (ISS) at 17:11 UTC (13:11 EDT). The Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft is named “K. E. Tsiolkovsky” (К.Э. Циолковский) in honour of Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky.
