July 15, 2019
Categories: Baikonur spaceport, Soyuz
Rolling of the head fairing on the “Soyuz MS-13” spaceship

Specialists of the RSC “Energia” (part of the Roscosmos State Corporation) in the Assembly and Testing building of the Baikonur cosmodrome continue to prepare for the launch of the “Soyuz-FG” launch vehicle with a spacecraft “Soyuz MS -13”.

In accordance with the schedule of work on July 12, 2019 the ship was inspected and technological operations of rolling the head fairing of the “Soyuz-FG” launch vehicle were performed.

The launch of the “Soyuz MS-13” spacecraft is scheduled from Baikonur cosmodrome on July 20, 2019.

The main crew of the ISS-60/61: cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, astronauts Luca Parmitano and Andrew Morgan.

Their backups are Sergey Ryzhikov, Thomas Mashburn and Soichi Noguchi.

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