2021 Roscosmos Soyuz MS-17 Manned Undock/Landing Kazakhstan 17 April Lollini

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Roscosmos Soyuz
MS-17
ISS Undock/Landing
2021
Offering a cover serviced for Roscosmos Soyuz MS-17 ISS Undocking and Landing, Lollini printed cachet, Cancelled Kazakhstan 17-April-2021.
Soyuz MS-17
was a Soyuz spaceflight that was launched on 14 October 2020. It transported three crew members of the Expedition 63/64 crew to the International Space Station. Soyuz MS-17 was the 145th crewed flight of a Soyuz spacecraft. The crew consisted of a Russian commander and a Russian and American flight engineer.
The mission marked the first use of a new "ultrafast" two-orbit rendezvous flight plan with the Soyuz, which saw Soyuz MS-17 arrive at the ISS within approximately three hours after the launch.
On 19 March 2021, the crew of Soyuz MS-17 boarded their spacecraft to relocate it from
Rassver
to
Poisk
to make way for the arrival and docking of the Soyuz MS-18, spacecraft, which launched on 9 April 2021 carrying cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky, Pytor Dubrov and the astronaut of NASA, Mark T. Vande Hei to the ISS ahead of a six-month stay. The two spacecraft had a nine-day handover period before Soyuz MS-17 departed. This is necessary to avoid de-crewing the Russian Orbital Segment (ROS) of the ISS since no Russian cosmonaut was present aboard SpaceX Crew-1.
(Wikipedia)