SS 40/41 main and back up crews left for Baikonur spaceport where they will be having final preflight trainings before the launch.

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.

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

Main and back-up crews of ISS-40/41 mission started passing exams. After examination session the cosmonauts and astronauts will have examinational trainings concluding their preflight preparations in Star City.

Russian Soyuz-ST booster with European scientific Earth remote sensing satellite was successfully launched from Kourou spaceport in French Guiana

British singer Sarah Brightman will fly to the ISS in autumn 2015 as a space tourist. She starts training in Russian GCTC not later than half a year before the launch of Soyuz TMA-18M.

According to Eurockot company responsible for launch services with the help of Rokot booster European Space Agency (ESA) made arrangements…

In accordance with training conditions the crew has to perform the following operations: changing clothes inside the descent module, building shelters, signaling to search aircrafts, medical treatment of the injured person and cooperation with the search and rescue teams.

According to the Head of Russian ESA office Rene Pischel, Russian Soyuz-ST boosters will be launched 4 times from European Kourou spaceport (South America) in 2014.