On the test station of the Rocket and Space Corporation “Energy” them. S.P. The queen (part of the state corporation “Roskosmos”) ended the initial stage of the factory integrated testing of the transport piloted ship “Union MS-20”. Today, September 1, 2021, the ship went to the Baikonur cosmodrome to continue staff training on the technical complex.
In the period from January of the current year, the Energy RCC specialists fully fulfilled the program of autonomous testing of on-board systems and units of the Soyuz MS-20 ship. After the completion of integrated, pneumatic and receiving tests, the ship passed the procedure for the output control and was prepared for shipping on the cosmodrome by rail.
Start of the “Soyuz-2.1A” launch vehicle with a piloted ship “Union MS-20” under the program of delivery of participants in the 66th of the main expedition and the 20th expedition to the International Space Station is scheduled for December 2021. The duration of the flight will be 12 days. The commander of the main crew is the cosmonaut of Roscosmos Alexander Misurkin, also on board will be a Japanese billionaire-entrepreneur Yusaka Maedzava and his business assistant Jozo Hirano.