“Union of MS-20” with Japanese tourists reached ISS

Sospace Soyuz MS-20 with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Maedzava and Jozoa tourists, Yusaka Maedzava and Jozo Hirano reached the International Space Station (ISS), reports Roskosmos.

Space ship docking to a small research module “Search” of the Russian segment of the ISS took place at 16:41 Moscow time. Return of tourists to Earth is scheduled for December 20.

Also “Union of MS-20” delivered about 162 kg of healthy goods on the ISS, including scientific materials, equipment, hygiene products and food.

From the Baikonur cosmodrome to the ISS Rocket “Soyuz-2.1a” with the Soyuz Soyuz-20 spacecraft started on December 8 at 10:38 Moscow time.

In December, RIA Novosti reported that the crew of the Soyuz MS-20 ship, which includes space tourists from Japan, spent under the song “Grass at the House” group “Earthlock”, performed in Japanese. As they also wrote “Izvestia”, the businessman Yusaka Maedzawa on board the ISS was planned to write a picture.

/Media reports.