Pilotable ship “Union MS-20” is ready for a common assembly with a carrier rocket

On the Baikonur cosmodrome, transportation of the space head with a transport piloted ship “Union MS-20” on the overall assembly of the Soyuz-2.1A-2.1A / Union / Union of MS-20 was held.

Today, December 2, 2021, specialists of the Rocket and Space Corporation “Energy” named after S.P. The Queen (part of the Roscosmos State Corporation) and profile enterprises of Roskosmos made a complex of technological operations on loading and sending the ship by rail to the installation and test case of the carrier missile at the site number 31, where he was preparing the head unit to assemble the space for space. / P>

Start of the Soyuz-2.1a carrier missile with the piloted ship “Union MS-20” is scheduled for December 8, 2021. The expedition of visits to the International Space Station with a duration of 12 days will be held under a contract with Space Adventures. The commander of the main crew is the cosmonaut of Roscosmos, Alexander Misurnkin, and Yusaka Maesava, President of the Start Tudai Corporation, and Jozoa Hirano, Personal Assistant Yusaka Maesava are appointed as participants in the cosmic flight to the main crew.

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