The backup crew of ISS-62/63 performed an “emergency training”, during which the Roscosmos cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Wagner, together with the astronaut Stephen Bowen, worked out actions in the event of a fire in the Russian segment of the station.

For the first time in 12 years cosmonauts and astronauts trained on actions after landing on a water surface on the Black Sea at the base of the Imeretinsky Universal Sea Terminal (Sochi, Krasnodar Region).

Today, on October 4,2019, the commander of the "Soyuz MS-12" spacecraft Aleksey Ovchinin and the space flight participant, the first UAE astronaut, Hazza Al Mansouri, arrived at Chkalovsky airport near Moscow.

The crew of the "Soyuz MS-12" spacecraft, undocked on October 3, 2019 at 10:37 (Moscow time) from the International Space Station, safely returned to Earth.

In Star City took place a ceremonial meeting of the crew of the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft, which returned to Earth on June 25, 2019 after almost 204-day long expedition to the International Space Station.

On the morning of September 10, 2019, at the GCTC was a farewell ceremony of the main and backup crews of the International Space Station ISS-61/62 expeditions, leaving to the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

At the GCTC took place a meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission, which summed up the readiness for space flight of the main and backup crews of the ISS-61/62.

At the GCTC began the examination complex training of the main and backup crews of the ISS-61/62 / EP-19.

On August 16, 2019, the main crew of the ISS-61/62 passed the exam for manual control of the approach of the "Soyuz - MS" spacecraft to the International Space Station on the "Don - Soyuz" simulator. The launch of the "Soyuz-FG" launch vehicle with the "Soyuz MS-15" spacecraft is scheduled for September 25, 2019.

On July 4, 2019, the main and backup crews of the "Soyuz MS-13" spacecraft arrived at the Baikonur cosmodrome to complete preparations for the upcoming space flight. The launch of the "Soyuz-FG" launch vehicle with the "Soyuz MS-13" spacecraft and the next long expedition to the International Space Station is scheduled for July 20, 2019 from the Baikonur cosmodrome.