In addition, the crew will have to perform a spacewalk on the Russian program, and still accept American cargo ship Dragon and Cygnus, and perform works on equipping the Russian and American segments of the ISS.
Federal Space Agency announced the launch date of space “Soyuz TMA-19M».
The main objective is the delivery of ship’s crew of Yuri Malenchenko, Timothy Kopra and Timothy Peake on the international space station. The State Commission and the board of the Russian Space Agency confirmed the date of the start of a new expedition to the International Space Station (ISS) and the date of landing work on it at this point of the expedition, outlining its December 15, informs pr-service Joint missile and space company.
Meanwhile, at the cosmodrome “Baikonur”, according to the agency, continued preparations for the first launch of a space “truck” “Progress MS».
The upper stage “Fregat-SB”, which after separation from the launch vehicle “Zenit -2SB “will bring to the target orbit spacecraft” Electro-L “number 2 was fueled with propellant components and delivered to the assembly building 40 site 31 Baikonur Cosmodrome” The final decision about the launch of “Soyuz TMA-19M” will be made by the National Commission.
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