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Soyuz MS-10 processing is in progress

Russian Aviaton » Monday July 23, 2018 20:38 MSK
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Processing of transport manned spacecraft Soyuz MS-10 is in good progress at Baikonur cosmodrome. Checkout activations of the systems and integrated tests are completed. From July 13 to July 19 the spacecraft systems and compartments were exposed to leak tests in the vacuum chamber. After bringing the systems to the initial state on July 20 Soyuz MS-10 was configured to the Storage mode.

The launch of Soyuz МS-10 is scheduled for October 11, 2018. The crew consisting of Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague will go to the International Space Station as the Expedition crewmembers.