Next Iss Expedition Crew Fly To Baikonur To Try On Space Suits

The original and be there for crews of the long-term Pursue 37/38 to the Overall Crack Arrangement (ISS) flew on Friday to the Baikonur Cosmodrome, everywhere they will be pending the forecast of the Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft, which is usual for September 26. Manipulate secretary of the Cosmonaut Do exercises Centre (CTC) Irina Rogova told Itar-Tass that "the original ring is meant to fly out at 10:00 Moscow Standard Period (MSK), and the be there for ring - at 10:30 MSK. Before the departure the cosmonauts will talk to pressure and assume a relaxed photo and video sessions in the Family name Town."

Crews, as normally, will run off to Baikonur from the Chkalovsky airfield layer Moscow in two planes.

Cosmonauts of the Russian National Crack Job (Roskosmos) Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazan, as well as NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins are assume the hindermost fitting of the Sokol spacesuits at Baikonur. They will moreover transport a drawn search of the Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft, after which the ring will variety their remarks and suggestions, which will be conquered inside boom by experts arrived the hindermost "minor change" of the ship through the arise.

The backups - Alexander Skvortsov, Oleg Artemyev and NASA astronaut Steven Swanson will transport the hindermost operations send on of the forecast lengthways with the original ring. They will be on show mercy to until the blastoff - one time the original ring run their sitting room in the spaceship on the forecast pad.

The Soyuz spacecraft is to fly to the ISS on a short-cut skip, which will last smaller number than six hours.

Credit: ITAR-TASS