Installing the carrier rocket with a manned “Soyuz” postponed due to bad weather – TASS

BAIKONUR, 16 March. / TASS /. Installing the carrier rocket “Soyuz-FG” on the first launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, where it has to start on March 19 with the manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-20M” to the ISS, moved due to adverse weather conditions. This was reported by TASS a source in the space industry.

“Setting the rocket” Soyuz-FG “postponed to a later date due to the strong wind. The decision as to when the missile will set at the launch complex, will be taken later, depending on weather conditions. “- said the agency

on the manned spacecraft” Soyuz TMA-20M “to the ISS a new expedition should go. The main crew: Russian cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka and NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams. Their doubles -. Russians Sergei Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko and American Robert Kimbrough

Start manned spacecraft is scheduled for March 19 at 00:26 MSK from the first ( “Gagarin”) launch site Baikonur Cosmodrome. The docking with the ISS should take place about six hours after the start ( “short” flight scheme) – at 06:12 MSK

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