Today, March 26, 2021, the main and duplicating crews of the transport piloted ship “Union MS-18” conducted training in the “Science” module, which passes a pre-assemblement in the installation and test case No. 254 of the Baikonur cosmodrome. Its launching to the Russian segment of the International Space Station is scheduled for the second half of this year using the Proton-M carrier missile.
Laboratory Module “Science” – a research module of the Russian segment of the International Space Station, developed by the RKK “Energy” them. S.P. Queen (equipment of onboard systems and scientific equipment) in cooperation with the GKNPC them. M.V. Khrunichev (general design and production) in order to expand the functionality of the Russian segment of the ISS. During the training session, the crews got acquainted with the external design and layout of the module, as well as with the layout of its internal volume.
The main crew of the Soyuz MS-18 ship includes: Commander Oleg Novitsky (Roscosmos), Bartinsman-1 Peter Dubrov (Roscosmos) and flight engineer-2 Mark Wanda Hai (NASA). Their dubers are astronauts of Roscosmos Anton Sabelers, Oleg Artemyev and Astronaut NASA Ann McClein.