RSC Energia specialists successfully performed fueling of the manned transportation spacecraft Soyuz MS-11 with propellant components and compressed gases at Baikonur Launch Site.

After fueling, the spacecraft was brought into the Assembly and Testing Facility and installed into the assembly jig for conducting further pre-launch processing operations.

According to the pre-launch processing schedule, the mating of the spacecraft with the adapter section is slated for the day after tomorrow, November 25.

The launch of Soyuz-FG launch vehicle with Soyuz MS-11 with the crew of the next Expedition to the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled for December 3, 2018 from the Baikonur launch site.

The prime crew of ISS-58/59 consists of Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, CSS astronaut David Saint-Jacques and NASA astronaut Anne McClain. Their backups are Rosocosmos cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan.