At the Baikonur cosmodrome preparations are continuing for the launch of the Soyuz MS-14 manned transport spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS).

Today, on August 13, specialists of RSC Energia and core enterprises of Roscosmos completed a set of technological operations for the Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft mating with the transfer compartment of launch vehicle (LV).

The launch of the Soyuz 2.1a launch vehicle with the Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft is scheduled for August 22, 2019 from launch site No. 31 of the Baikonur cosmodrome. It will be implemented in the unmanned mode and will be the first test one for the rocket-space complex of the Soyuz-2.1a LV with the Soyuz MS spacecraft.