The initial phase of prelaunch processing of the Crew Transportation Spacecraft Soyuz МS-13 has been completed in Baikonur cosmodrome.

Upon completion of the leak test of the spacecraft systems and compartments in the upgraded vacuum chamber Soyuz MS-13 was transported and installed in the test bench where final checks of the spacecraft systems were performed. After that, the spacecraft was transferred to a storage mode until the beginning of the final processing.

The launch of Soyuz MS-13 to the International Space Station is scheduled for July 20, 2019 from Baikonur cosmodrome. The spacecraft shall deliver a crew consisting of Alexander Skvortsov (commander, Roscosmos), Luca Parmitano (flight engineer, ESA) and Andrew Morgan (flight engineer, NASA) to the ISS.