Space industry specialists go on with preparation works for the launch of Soyuz TMA-12M.

GCTC Research and Test Centre conducted a series of experiments for the benefit of future interplanetary flights and Solar system exploration in which Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev who returned from the ISS on September 11 was taking part.

Soyuz TMA-14M crews passed the first training in Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft and raised the flags of ISS-41/42 mission contries-participants.

Today, on September 12, Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre charters brought main and back-up crew of Soyuz TMA-14M manned spacecraft to Baikonur spaceport. Roscosmos, Yuzny space Centre and international Space School student greeted the newly arrived cosmonauts and astronauts.

Preparations works for Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft launch are under way at Baikonur spaceport. On September 10 the specialists started preparing famous # 1 so called “Gagarin” launchpad for the launch scheduled for September 26.

ISS-39/40 crew finishes its mission onboard the station on September 11, 2014, according to the ISS flight program .

New Russian Bion-series satellite is to be developed by 2019, - Institute for Biomedical Problems Director Deputy Vladimir Sychov reported. – With the help of this satellite the scientists will be able to study space radiation impact on living organisms which is of great importance for Mars flight preparations.

On September 4, 2014 main (Alexander Samokutyayev, Roscosmos, Elena Serova, Roscosmos, Barry Wilmore, NASA) and back-up (Gennady Padalka, Roscosmos, Mikhail Korniyenko, Roscosmos, Scott Kelly, NASA) crews finished their complex preflight examination trainings in GCTC.

Russian woman-cosmonaut Anna Kikina may go to space in several years, - GCTC Head Yuri Lonchakov reported.

British singer Sarah Brightman will start preparation trainings for space flight to the ISS in 2015