March 12, 2020
Categories: GCTC

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center passes the second day of exam complex training.

The first on the simulator of the “Soyuz MS” manned spacecraft was the main crew of the ISS-63, consisting of Roscosmos cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin, Ivan Wagner and NASA astronaut Christopher Cassidy.

Then began the training exam for the backup crew consisting of Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov, Andrey Babkin and NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen in the Russian segment of the ISS.

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