September 19, 2019
Categories: GCTC, Star city

In Star City took place a ceremonial meeting of the crew of the “Soyuz MS-11” spacecraft, which returned to Earth on June 25, 2019 after almost 204-day long expedition to the International Space Station.

According to the tradition, the “Soyuz MS-11” spacecraft commander, ISS-58/59 commander Oleg Kononenko, flight engineers David Saint-Jacques and Anne McClain, as well as the management of the Russian Space Agency, the GCTC, space industry enterprises and representatives of foreign space agencies laid flowers to the monument of Yuri Gagarin.

Then the crew , accompanied by senior guests, the orchestra and the citizens of Star City, walked along the Cosmonauts Alley to the Cosmonauts’ House, where a meeting was held, dedicated to the the ISS-58/59 crew.

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