Japan is a country whose residents strictly observe their traditions and customs. On Wednesday, November 17, 2021, Japanese tourists Yusaka Maesava, Jozo Hirano and Schun Ogiso, preparing for the flight to the International Space Station, also joined the traditions of Soviet and Russian manned cosmonautics.
After a meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission at the Center for the Training of Cosmonauts, the participants of the space flight along with their commanders Alexander Misurkin and Alexander Skvortsov visited the sign places, revered by many generations of astronauts and astronauts.
First, the main and duplication crews of the 20th expedition of the ISS visiting visited the Museum of the CPC, where autographs and entries in a special memorable book left in the office of the first cosmonaut. In the museum hall of international space flights, crews traditionally replenished their collection of photographic preparation.
Roskosmosa Cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin and Alexander Skvortsov and the participants of the space flight Yusaka Maesava, Jozo Hirano and Schun Ogiso went to the Red Square, where the flowers laid and honored the memory of the chief designer of spacecraft S.P. Korolev, the discoverer of space of Sosmos Yu.A. Gagarin and other cosmonauts buried at the Kremlin Wall.
The day of traditional pre-flight activities was completed by visiting the memorial house-museum of Academician S.P. Korolev in Moscow.