March 11, 2019

In the morning of March 10, at the site № 254 of the Baikonur cosmodrome in accordance with the pre-launch preparation plan, the main crew (Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch) and the back-up crew (Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan) of the 59 / 60th long expedition to the ISS began a control checkup inspection of the “Soyuz MS-12” spacecraft.

After the introductory briefing, the cosmonauts and astronauts checked the composition and placement of cargo and equipment in the descent vehicle and the living compartment.

Having completed the ship inspection, the crews reported, that there were no claims on the results of the control “fitting” and thanked all the specialists for their work, and then went to the assembly shop of the RSC “Progress” branch.

There, on the platform № 112 of the cosmodrome, cosmonauts and astronauts examined the launch vehicle, which on March 14, 2019 would launch “Soyuz MS-12” into orbit.

According to the pre-launch tradition, the main and backup crews of the ISS-59/60 also visited the Baikonur Cosmodrome Museum, famous for its unique collection of exhibits.

After the visiting of the museum exhibition, which is replenished by cosmonauts from the time of the first manned flights into space, the members of the main crew signed the autographs board, and also left memorable wishes in the guest book.

5909339543

5544498140

5510401404

5206115146

5153397235

4952582451

More from this category:
April 21, 2013

Birthday of cosmonaut Georgi Beregovoy was celebrated in Donetsk lands. He was the only person in the Russian space team who came there as a…

full story
September 24, 2013

RIA Novosti – For the second time in 24 hours, NASA and private commercial US rocket company Orbital Sciences on Monday pushed back the docking…

full story
June 3, 2014

Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Alexander Skvortsov will perform the spacewalk on June 19. One of the tasks will be to look for bacteria on…

full story
June 12, 2020

Russia and India will soon determine which Russian-made equipment can be used in the Indian manned spacecraft “Gaganyaan”, Dmitry Loskutov, “Glavkosmos” Director General, commented in…

full story
July 17, 2019

Today, on July 17, 2019, representatives of the technical management and the State Commission issued an permission on the readiness of the “Soyuz-FG” launch vehicle…

full story
August 30, 2019

At the GCTC began the examination complex training of the main and backup crews of the ISS-61/62 / EP-19. The backup crew, consisting of cosmonaut…

full story
May 14, 2015

British singer Sarah Brightman announced that she is unable to perform a spacefight planned for family reasons (as stated in the message at her official…

full story
November 9, 2015

ISS flight schedule of russian spacecrafts was changed since the first launch of Progress MS new generation cargo vehicle was shifted from November to December. “Because…

full story