On May 22 GCTC started testing Hydrolaboratory systems for the first time after completion of the broadscale maintenance works. In the framework of testing Orlan EVA spacesuits with mannequins inside were submerged to check spacesuits and Hydrolab systems before cosmonauts’ trainings.

Today at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center was a farewell ceremony of the crew of the ISS-63 to Baikonur.

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center on March 12, 2020, completed the complex examination of the main and backup crews of the ISS-63.

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center passes the second day of exam complex training.

On the 7th of March, 1960 the landmark event in the history of space exploration occurred – exactly on that date the first 12 people were enrolled in the cosmonaut squad.

Ahead of the ISS-63 crews are complex examination exercises. Before cosmonauts and astronauts need to undergo a typical flight day training.

he Russian members of the main crew of the "Soyuz MS-16" manned spacecraft, Roscosmos cosmonauts NikolaY Tikhonov and Andrey Babkin, will be replaced by backups due to medical reasons.

On February 12, 2020, the commander of the "Soyuz MS-16" manned spacecraft, Nikolay Tikhonov, and the flight engineer of the ship, Andrey Babkin, performed examination training on the "Don- Soyuz" simulator for manual approaching and re-docking.

As part of the contract with a Human Spaceflight Center of Indian Space Research Organization, ISRO the GCTC on Monday, February 10, 2020, began the planned preparation of Indian candidates for 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 of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS).