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.

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.

Test cosmonaut candidates (general space training group of 2012 admission) and test cosmonaut candidates started preflight trainings in GCTC following the results of the first open competitions on cosmonaut corps admission passed one of the most important tests in their space career.

Prime and back-up crews go on with their examination session. In course of the session cosmonauts and astronauts practice every stage of the space flight from launch to the landing.

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