October 4, 2005. Korolev, Moscow area.

The training sessions under the program to train the crews of Expedition 13 to the International Space Station (ISS-13) are in progress at RSC Energia after S.P. Korolev.
Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov (RSC Energia’s Test Cosmonaut) receiving training as ISS-13 Crew Commander and Soyuz TMA Commander, practised performing the following flight operations on onboard simulator under the direction of the Corporation’s specialists:

• redocking of the Soyuz TMA space vehicle from the docking assembly of Pirs Module to the docking assembly of Functional Cargo Block Zarya;
• Soyuz TMA deorbiting;
• berthing and docking of Progress cargo space vehicle to Zvezda Service Module in remote control mode.

Also he together with the specialists from RSC Energia and Institute of Medical-Biological Problems took part in the training session on conducting scientific experiment Pilot.