May 28, 2014
Categories: Baikonur Cosmodrome, ESA, ISS, NASA, Roscosmos, Soyuz
State Commission Meeting and ISS-40/41 crews Press-Conference

Yesterday on May 27,2014 State commission on Manned Space Complex flight tests meeting took place in “Cosmonaut” complex at #17 launching pad of Baikonur spaceport. The commission headed by Oleg Ostapenko (Roscosmos Head) approved the main crew of Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft consisting of Maksim Surayev (Roscosmos), Reid Wiseman (NASA), Alexander Gerst ( ESA) and the back-up crew  comprising Anton Shkaplerov (Roscosmos), Samantha Christoforetti (ESA) and Terry Virts (NASA).

After the meeting the cosmonauts of both crews took part in pre-launch press-conference. They told the journalists about their preparations for the launch and what they feel about

More from this category:
May 21, 2021
June 2 spacewalk

On June 2, 2021, the crew of the Russian segment of the International Space Station, Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov will perform a…

full story
May 26, 2015
Roscosmos Haven’t Found Proton-M Debris after the Crush

After Proton-M booster crush Roscosmos inspected the estimated region of Proton-M debris fall using all possible space surveillance devices and haven’t found anything. There was…

full story
January 9, 2014
Roscosmos Delegation will Take Part in Space Summit

International cooperation issues, orbital space station design and further space exploration prospects are to be discussed by Space Agencies Heads in USA, – Roscosmos press-office…

full story
May 17, 2019
Refueling of the “Spectrum-RG” spacecraft

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
November 25, 2019
“Progress MS-13”: launch date updated

During the pre-flight preparation of the “Progress MS-13” cargo spaceship at the Baikonur cosmodrome, RSC “Energia” specialists identified a defect on the onboard cable. The…

full story
July 9, 2014
Russia Launched Angara for the First Time

Russia performed the first test launch of new Angara-1.2PP light booster, the first ecologically friendly booster that has been designed since USSR collapse, – the…

full story
May 20, 2015
Expert: too Early to Replace Proton with Angara

It is too early to replace proton with Angara since this is a new rocket and it didn’t have enough time to accumulate positive flight…

full story
November 20, 2018
Crews of the ISS-58/59 starts pre-launch preparation at the Baikonur cosmodrome

Yesterday morning, on November 19, after the farewell ceremonial of the main and backup crews of the ISS-58/59 in Star City, the cosmonauts and astronauts…

full story