On Friday, March 19, 2021, there was a reloading of the piloted ship “Soyuz MS-17” from a small research module “Dawn” on the “Search” module of the Russian segment of the International Space Station. Roskosmos Cosmonaut Sergey Kud-cakes published on his official Vkontakte page The first photo from the descent ship’s apparatus during an autonomous flight.
“Last night I performed a planned rejoice in the Soyuz MS-17 ship: rejected from the” Dawn “module, flew 40 meters from the station, flew it out and moored to the” Search “module.
Perestkovka is necessary to ensure the possibility of docking the next manned ship to the “Dawn” module, and the “search” after the diverse of our ship could be safely used to enter outdoor space. Wheel down, we revealed the ship, led all his systems to readiness just like This is done in front of a regular descent. And since it did not remain anyone on the Russian segment of the station, we conducted almost complete conservation of it with the shutdown of systems and the closure of all intermodulic and intercreen hatches. This last time was done for quite a long time, for example, when the station was not yet inhabited, and attended.
everything went regularly. The commander performed the work perfectly! Now on the crew account two docks “Union” – in automatic and manual modes! “
Currently, the crew of the 64th long expedition to the international space station consists of its commander, astronaut Roscosmos Sergey Ryzhikova, the flights: Cosmonaut of Roskosmos Sergey Katlin Schurchkov and Astronaut NASA Kathlein Rubins, and also arrived on November 17, 2020 on the piloted ship Crew Dragon Astronauts NASA Michael Hopkins, Viktor Glover, Shannon Walker and Astronauts of the Japanese Aerospace Research Agency Socychi Noguchi. On the ship “Union of MS-18” on the ISS, the astronauts of Roskosmos Oleg Novitsky and Peter Dubrov, as well as NASA Astronaut Mark Wanda Hai.