RSC Energia: Designer's inspection and encapsulation of Soyuz MS-13 crew transportation spacecraft complete
July 12, 2019
Energia corporation specialists working at the Baikonur launch site continue preparing the integrated launch vehicle with the crew transportation spacecraft (CTS) Soyuz MS-13 for its launch to the International Space Station (ISS).
In accordance with the pre-launch processing schedule, today, July 12, a designer’s inspection of the spacecraft was conducted an processing operations were performed to encapsulate the spacecraft into the payload fairing of Soyuz-FG launch vehicle.
The launch of the crew transportation spacecraft Soyuz MS-13 on the launch vehicle Soyuz-FG is scheduled for July 20, 2019 from the Baikonur launch site.
The main crew of Expedition ISS-60/61 are: a Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov, an ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano, and a NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan. Their backup are a Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergei Ryzhikov, a NASA astronaut Thomas Marshburn and a JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi.