September 16, 2019

Today, on September 16, 2019, in accordance with the training schedule the specialists of the RSC “Energia” (part of Roscosmos State Corporation) completed a series of technological operations for assembly of the “Soyuz MS-15” spacecraft with transfer compartment of the launch vehicle.

The launch of the “Soyuz-FG” launch vehicle with the “Soyuz MS-15” spacecraft to the International Space Station is scheduled for September 25, 2019 from the Gagarinsky launch pad of the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

The main crew of the ISS-61/62 / EP-19 is the cosmonaut Oleg Skrypochka, astronaut Jessica Meir and a spaceflight participant from the UAE, Hazza Al Mansouri.

Their backups are cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov, astronaut Thomas Marshburn and space flight participant Sultan Al Neyadi.

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