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ISS-39 mission crew is preparing for the return to the Earth according to the ISS flight program. Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft will undock the the station on May 14, 2014.

Following the results of examination trainings State Commission approved the main crew of new ISS mission consisting of Roscosmos cosmonaut Maksim Surayev, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst.

ISS-40/41 misson main and back-up crew members are passing their preflight examinations in GCTC.

Soyuz-2.1a booster with military space device was successfully launched from Plesetsk spaceport, representative of Russian Ministry of Defenсe press-office management on Aerospace Defenсe troops Colonel Alexey Zolotukhin reported on Tuesday.

In the next three months Roscosmos plans to accomplish more than 10 space launches taking place from Baikonur and Plesetsk spaceports, Guiana Space Centre and “spaceport floating in the Pacific Ocean”.

Luxembourg SES Company plans to launch telecommunication device from Baikonur spaceport according to the plan, Yves Feltes company press-office representative reported.

Soyuz-2.1a booster with military satellite was rolled out to the launching pad of Plesetsk spaceport on May 4, 2014.

ISS orbit was successfully adjusted on April 29, 2014 and amounts to 417,2 km now.

Russian Luch-5V and Kazakh KazSat-3 satellites orbited on Monday operate nominally, JSC Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems representative reports.

ISS-40/41 mission main and back-up crews had a standard flight day training on Russian ISS segment simulator in GCTC.