March 14, 2022

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome the pre-launch processing of manned transportation spacecraft Soyuz MS-21 for flight under the program of the ISS-66/67 Expedition to the International Space Station is proceeding to completion.

As per schedule, designer’s inspection and final checkout of Soyuz MS-21 took place at its worksite in the integration and test facility of Site 254. After that, specialists from S.P.Korolev RSC Energia performed a sequence of operations to roll on the payload fairing and prepared the integrated ascent unit for the upcoming launch readiness check, as well as completed loading of more than 150 kg of additional cargo in the descent module of the vehicle. Soyuz MS-21 shall deliver sanitary and hygienic supplies and biomedical experiment materials, flight data files and hardware consumables, clothing items and personal items, as well as fresh produce and standard food rations for the ISS crew.

The prime crew of Soyuz MS-21 consists of commander Оleg Аrtemiev and flight engineers Denis Мatveev and Sergei Korsakov. Their backups are Sergei Prokopiev, Dmitri Petelin and Anna Kikina. The launch of Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle carrying Soyuz-MS-21 dedicated to the memory of the founder of practical cosmonautics, academician Sergei Pavlovich Korolev is planned for March 18, 2022.

More from this category:
September 2, 2014

Russian and American scientists started ambitious cosmonauts’ cognitive psychology studies to elaborate new methods and techniques of cosmonaut training for actions under extreme conditions, –…

full story
August 29, 2014

Space industry specialists continue preparation works for the launch of Soyuz TMA-14M manned spacecraft to the ISS from Baikonur spaceport.   RSC Energia and Yuzhny space…

full story
October 5, 2020

The first launch of reusable Amur booster with methane-powered engine is planned for 2026, Roscosmos reported. Reusability is the major current trend in space industry…

full story
April 5, 2020

On April 4, 2020, meetings of the Technical Management and the State Commission were held at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, where they examined the readiness of…

full story
May 17, 2019

Specialists of Roscosmos enterprises at the Baikonur cosmodrome started operations to fuel the “Spectrum-RG” spacecraft with fuel components, and this operations will last for several…

full story
July 16, 2013

Lavochkin Research and Production Association developing second Electro-L meteosat will receive the sample of operational Earth monitoring complex this month. After that specialists will be…

full story
November 6, 2018

On Saturday, November 3, at 11:17 pm Moscow time, at the Plesetsk State Test Space Center in the Arkhangelsk Region was successfully launched the “Soyuz-2.1B”…

full story
July 18, 2024

Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, as well as their understudies Sergei Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, practised the operations they will perform during the spacewalk. The…

full story