Roscosmos cosmonauts Mukhtar Aimakhanov, Oleg Blinov, Pyotr Dubrov, Sergey Korsakov, Dmitry Petelin, Andrey Fedyayev, Nickolay Tchub and cosmonaut candidate Anna Kikina will be having mountain survival trainings in Tuapse. The trainings take place from October 19 to October 28, 2014.

On October 16 Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre saw General Medical Board meeting that analyzed the data gained in the result of Russian ISS-42/43 mission crew medical examination for the period of preflight preparation

On September 17 Baikonur saw traditional “mass media day”. The journalists got the opportunity to see one day in the cosmonauts’ life at Baikonur spaceport before Soyuz TMA-14M launch .

GCTC Research and Test Centre conducted a series of experiments for the benefit of future interplanetary flights and Solar system exploration in which Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev who returned from the ISS on September 11 was taking part.

Soyuz TMA-14M crews passed the first training in Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft and raised the flags of ISS-41/42 mission contries-participants.

On September 4, 2014 main (Alexander Samokutyayev, Roscosmos, Elena Serova, Roscosmos, Barry Wilmore, NASA) and back-up (Gennady Padalka, Roscosmos, Mikhail Korniyenko, Roscosmos, Scott Kelly, NASA) crews finished their complex preflight examination trainings in GCTC.

Russian woman-cosmonaut Anna Kikina may go to space in several years, - GCTC Head Yuri Lonchakov reported.

British singer Sarah Brightman will start preparation trainings for space flight to the ISS in 2015

ISS- 41/42 mission main and back-up crews passed exams on Rissian ISS segment and Soyuz TMA-M simulators.

On September 3, 2014 ISS main and back-up crews started complex examination trainings in GCTC.