The military personnel of the Central Military District were relocated to Kazakhstan to ensure the safety of the launch of the Soyuz-2.1A launch vehicle with the piloted ship “Union MS-20”. This is stated in the report, distributed on Monday by the press service of the district.
“servicemen, a special technique of search and rescue and parachute service (PS and PDS) and the crews of the Army Aviation of the Central Military District (CIO) are removed to Kazakhstan to ensure the safety of the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft Tourists from Japan on board, “the report says.
So, more than 150 military rescuers and physicians and physicians are replied from the Chelyabinsk region, as well as the crews of Mi-8 helicopters, An-26 and An-12 aircraft and more than 20 units of ground automotive equipment, including upgraded search and evacuation machines PEM-1 and PEM-2 “Blue Bird”. During the flight of the Soyuz-2.1a carrier, the Soyuz MS-20 piloted ship will bear operational duty at Russian airfields in the settlements of Uprune, Gorno-Altaisk, Kyzyl, Ekaterinburg and in Kazakhstan at the airfields in Karaganda, Baikonur, Zhezkazgan and Arkalyk.
Another piloted launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome is scheduled for December 8, 2021 at 10:38 Moscow time. The main crew of the ship includes: the commander Alexander Misurkin (Roscosmos) and the participants of the space flight – President of the Start Tuday Corporation, Yusaka Maesava and his personal assistant Jozo Hirano.