July 15, 2013
Categories: Baikonur Cosmodrome, ISS, NASA, Roscosmos, Soyuz
Soyuz TMA-10M Delivered to Baikonur Spaceport

Soyuz TMA-10M manned spacecraft was delivered from Korolev-city, Moscow region to Toretam railway station on Saturday.

“The train was transferred to the spaceport inner railway and then to  site 254”, – the source reported.

This week preparation works for Soyuz TMA-launch planned for September 26, 2013 (00.58 Moscow time) will start at Baikonur spaceport.

The spacecraft will send 37/38 ISS mission crew to the ISS. Both crews are already training in Star City. The prime crew consists of Oleg Kotov, Sergey Ryazansky (Roscosmos) and Michael Hopkins (NASA), the back-up crew – Alexander Skvortsov, Oleg Artemyev (Roscosmos) and Steven Swanson (NASA).

Russian-American crew will work onboard the ISS for about half a year.

More from this category:
July 18, 2018
RSC “Energia”. The state contract for space rocket complex with a “Soyuz-5” carrier rocket signed.

Today, July 17, 2018, “Roskosmos” State Corporation has signed a state contract with RSC “Energia” for the creation of a new-generation middle class space rocket…

full story
November 6, 2024
The Soyuz-2.1b rocket put two Ionosphere-M satellites into orbit

The Soyuz-2.1b rocket was launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome, located in the heart of the Amur taiga. This cosmodrome has become one of the record…

full story
March 18, 2019
The first spacewalk anniversary

On March 18, 1965, at 10 am (Moscow time), the “Voskhod-2” spacecraft with a crew (Pavel Belyaev and Alexey Leonov) was launched from the Baikonur…

full story
November 28, 2018
Open trainings of crews took place at Baikonur cosmodrome

On November 27, open training of the main and backup crews of the “Soyuz MS-11” spacecraft took place at the Baikonur cosmodrome. Cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko,…

full story
April 23, 2013
Soyuz-2.1b with Glonass-M installed on the launch pad

Soyuz-2.1b booster with Glonass-M spacecraft delivered to the launch pad of Plesetsk cosmodrome According to RIA Novosti, specialists of Plesetsk cosmodrome rolled Soyuz-2.1b booster with…

full story
August 30, 2018
Roskosmos. Progress-MS-08 cargo ship was brought down from orbit.

The Progress-MS-08 cargo ship was brought down from orbit after a one-week experiment “Izgib” and flooded in a non-navigable area of ​​the Pacific Ocean. The…

full story
February 5, 2014
Progress M-22M to Deliver Goldfish and Wigglers to the ISS

Russian 2014 space program implementation starts on February 5, 20014 with Progress M-22M cargo vehicle launch. The vehicle will deliver more than 2,5 tons of…

full story
July 24, 2020
Progress MS-15 Spacecraft Reached ISS in Record Time

The State Corporation Roskosmos has summed up the results of the launch campaign of the Progress MS-15 cargo vehicle, which was successfully launched under the…

full story