On Saturday, March 14 from the Baikonur Star City arrived primary and backup crews of manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-16M” betrays “Interfax”. Launch manned spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the ISS is scheduled for 22:43 at Moscow on March 27.
As usual crews arrived at the launch site in two different planes. First with the main crew (cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, Mikhail Kornienko and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly) on board sat down at 13:00 Moscow time at the airport “extreme”. After 10 minutes on the runway the aircraft landed with a “second team” – Alexei Ovchininym, Sergei Volkov, Jeffrey Williams.
At the same time, on the same aircraft arrived operative group of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center and foreign experts involved in ensuring American astronauts training.
How to tell the agency specialists at Baikonur, crews will conduct the final stage of preparation for launch. On March 15, they will exercise in the vehicle and fitting flight suits.
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