Both main and back-up ISS-41/42 mission crews passed "standard flight day" exams.

The cosmonauts passed the training on Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft manual docking with the ISS on Don-Soyuz simulator. This week main and back-up crews are to pass one more examinational training so called ”Standard flight day”, on September 3 and 4 ISS-41/42 will start complex training summing up the results of their preparations in Star City.

ISS-41/42 mission main and back-up crews go on with their examinational session. After that cosmonauts and astronauts will start complex examinational trainings summing up the results of their preparations in Star City.

State Commission meeting approved Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyayev, Elena Serova, Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Korniyenko for the spaceflight.

Group of cosmonauts (admission 2012) started survival trainings under desert or near desert conditions at Baikonur.

ISS crews finished water survival trainings on the basis of # 179 Ministry of Emergency Situations Centre situated in Noginsk, Moscow region.

Anna Kikina was enlisted to the cosmonaut corps again despite the decision to exclude her taken by Interdepartmental Commission earlier.

ISS-45/46 and ISS-47/48 finished their water survival trainings last week. ISS-46/47and ISS-48/49 are going to pass the same training program starting on july 2, 2014.

Four crews going to the ISS in 2015-2016 started water survival trainings.

NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins was officially introduced to GCTC specialists and authorities and started trainig before future flight scheduled for 2016.