The final stage of preparation for the flight of the main and backup crews of the forthcoming expedition to the International Space Station has begun on Baikonur.

The descent vehicle of the "Soyuz MS-14" spacecraft with the anthropomorphic robot "Skybot F-850" on September 7, 2019 at 00:32 (Moscow time) made a successful landing.

In the Assembly and Testing building of site № 254 of the Baikonur cosmodrome, employees of the RSC "Energia" (part of the Roscosmos State Corporation) and other specialized enterprises of Roscosmos continue to work with the "Soyuz MS-15" spacecraft.

At the GCTC took place a meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission, which summed up the readiness for space flight of the main and backup crews of the ISS-61/62.

The "Soyuz MS-14" spacecraft on August 27, 2019 at 06:08 (Moscow time) successfully docked to the "Zvezda" module of the Russian segment of the International Space Station.

On August 26, the "Soyuz MS-13" spacecraft was successfully redocked from the "Zvezda" service module to the "Poisk" small research module of the Russian segment of the International Space Station.

On August 24 due to technical reasons the docking of the spacecraft with the ISS in automatic mode did not take place. In order to ensure conditions for its docking on August 26, it is planned to re-dock the "Soyuz MS-13" spacecraft from the "Zvezda" service module to the "Poisk" small research module of the Russian segment of the ISS.

According to RIA news agency today, on August 24, the "Soyuz MS-14" spacecraft with the "Fedor" robot on board could not dock with the ISS at the scheduled time.

On August 22, 2019 at 06:38:32 (Moscow time) the "Soyuz-2.1a" launch vehicle with the "Soyuz MS-14" spacecraft was successfully launched from the launch pad of the site № 31 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

At the Baikonur cosmodrome tests of the radio systems of the "Soyuz MS-15" spacecraft were successfully completed.