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).

On January 15, 2020, the Russian members of the ISS-63 main crew Nikolay Tikhonov and Andrey Babkin passed the test training on docking and "Orlan-ISS" spacesuit systems on the "Exit-2" simulator, the uniqueness of which is that it imitates the work of "Orlan-ISS" suits in the conditions of simulated weightlessness.

On January 11, 1960, the Cosmonaut Training Center was formed in the Green (nowadays world famous Star) City. In the late 1960s, the Center was named after Yuri Gagarin in memory of the first cosmonaut of the planet.

Members of the ISS-63 main crew - Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolay Tikhonov and Andrey Babkin performed a training on the "Exit-2" simulator, using a new cyclogram.