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.

The management wants to stop launching astronauts from Russian spaceports. NASA specialists at the same time were unsatisfied with this government’s decision specifying that scientific cooperation should lay beyond politics.

According to specialists calculations if there was nothing done space debris could get dangerously close to the ISS - at the distance less than 400 meters.

Taking into consideration the fact that Russia is still violating Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity NASA stops most joint projects, - official notice on NASA’s webpage in Facebook states.

Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft carrying new ISS mission crew successfully docked with the station in automatic mode, – MSC representative reported….

Soyuz FG booster was successfully rolled out and installed on #1 launching pad (Gagarin launch) of Baikonur spaceport on March 23.

Preparation works for the manned launch are under way at Baikonur spaceport. Yuzhny space centre operational crews started preparing equipment…

Soyuz TMA-10M crew will take part in field test just after the landing