Prime and back-up crews go on with their examination session. In course of the session cosmonauts and astronauts practice every stage of the space flight from launch to the landing.

Main and back-up ISS-39/40 crews started their examinations that will last till late February. Early March cosmonauts and astronauts will start complex examination trainings that generally complete preflight trainings in GCTC.

One-year ISS mission crew stood the test by 20 degrees frost im the forest of Moscow region, – GCTC press-office…

In accordance with training conditions the crew has to perform the following operations: changing clothes inside the descent module, building shelters, signaling to search aircrafts, medical treatment of the injured person and cooperation with the search and rescue teams.

On January 11, 2014 world-famous Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre celebrated its 54th anniversary. Situated in Star City (Moscow region), restricted…

ISS -37/37 crew performed more than 160 experiments on Russian and American ISS segments during its half a year mission and moreover coped with off-nominal situation with Luca Parmitano’s spacesuit during the EVA.

Humanlike robot designed for spacewalks will be demonstrated to the specialists and journalists in Star City on November 27, GCTC representative reported.

Final preflight trainings of 38/39 ISS crews going to space on November 7, 2013 started in GCTC. For a month…

On September 17 Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev with their colleague from NASA astronaut Stephen Swanson made Baikonur…

Today GCTC saw formal parting ceremony of ISS 37/38 main( Oleg Kotov, Sergey Ryazansky, Michael Hopkins) and back-up (Alexander Skvortsov,…