Today, October 14, representatives of the technical management and the state commission at the Baikonur cosmodrome made a decision on the readiness of the space transportation system consisting of the new-series crew transportation spacecraft Soyuz MS-02 and launch vehicle (LV) Soyuz-FG to be rolled out and erected on the launch pad.

The overall assembly of space transportation system has been successfully completed today. During the day, the orbital module with the spacecraft was mated to the third stage of the rocket at the launch vehicle processing facility.

Rolling-out of the launch vehicle with Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft from the processing facility and erecting it on the launch pad of Area 31 of the Baikonur cosmodrome are scheduled for October 16.

The launch of the crew transportation spacecraft Soyuz MS-02 is scheduled for October 19 from Pad Area 31 of the Baikonur launch site.

The main crew consists of Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Andrei Borisenko and NASA astronautRobert Shane Kimbrough. The backup crew consists of Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin and Nikolai Tikhonov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei.