September 23, 2014
Categories: Baikonur Cosmodrome, NASA, Roscosmos, Soyuz, Space
Soyuz TMA-14M Rolled-Out to the Launching Pad

Today, on September 23, 2014 Soyuz-FG booster with Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft was rolled-out to #1 launchpad (Gagarin launch).

After the booster was installed and service truss attached to it launching crews started working in accordance with the first launching day schedule.

The launch is scheduled for September 26. The main crew going to the ISS comprises Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyayev and Elena Serova and NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore, the back-up crew consists of Mikhail Korniyenko (Roscosmos), Gennady Padalka (Roscosmos) and Scott Kelly (NASA)

 

More from this category:
January 11, 2014
ISS Russian Crewmembers will Perform Unscheduled Spacewalk

This Friday, on January 10, 2014 MCC specialists took a decision on unscheduled spacewalks to be performed on January 27 or 28 by Russian crew…

full story
June 19, 2015
Import Phase-out Issue for Luna-25 Settled

Foreign-made compounds phase-out program for Russian Luna-25 researcher is complete, – Lavochkin Scientific Association representative reported at Le Bourget-2015 International Air show. At Paris Air…

full story
January 16, 2014
TurkSat-4A Communication Satellite Delivered to Baikonur Spaceport

On January 16 TurkSat-4A telecommunication satellite manufactured by Japanese company Mitsubishi Electric – МЕLCO was delivered to Baikonur spaceport by AN-124 aircraft of Volga-Dnepr aero…

full story
January 24, 2014
Progress Design Bureau to Develop New Generation Aist-2 Satellite By 2015

The first new generation Aist-2 small satellite is to be created in 2015,  Samara Progress Central Assembly and Design Engineering Bureau reports, who will develop…

full story
January 24, 2020
Scientific examination of cosmonauts

The Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolay Tikhonov and Andrey Babkin successfully passed the test according to the program of scientific and applied research and experiments on simulators…

full story
September 26, 2014
Soyuz TMA-14M Spacecraft Successfully Docked with the ISS

At 06:11, Moscow time, on September 26 Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft launched from Baikonur spaceport at 00:25, Moscow time, successfully docked with the ISS. Soyuz TMA-14M…

full story
September 26, 2019
“Soyuz MS-15” docked to ISS

The spacecraft “Soyuz MS-15” at 22:42 (Moscow time) on September 25, 2019, in normal mode docked to the “Zvezda” service module of the Russian segment…

full story
April 2, 2013
SUPER-HEAVY BOOSTER IS NEEDED TO DEPLOY THE SYSTEM OF ASTEROID OBSERVATION

To prevent asteroid threat super-heavy booster is needed, – RSC Energia president Vilatiy Lopota stated. According to his words the booster is to be developed…

full story