The predist preparation of the transport piloted ship “Union MS-20” continues on the flight to the flight to the International Space Station under the contract with Space Adventures.
Today, November 26, 2021, in the installation and test case of the site No. 254 Specialists of the Rocket and Space Corporation “Energy” named after S.P. The queen (part of the state corporation “Roscosmos”) and profile enterprises of Roscosmos made a complex of technological operations on docking the ship “Union of MS-20” with a transition compartment of the block of the third stage of the carrier missile.
The transition compartment is part of the cosmic head and provides a mechanical connection of the ship with a head fairing, as well as the integration of the Soyuz MS-20 command interface in the onboard control system of the Soyuz-2.1A carrier rocket.
The main crew of the Soyuz MS-20 ship includes: Commander Alexander Misurnkin (Roscosmos) and the participants of the space flight – President of the Start Tuday Corporation, Yusaka Maesava and his personal assistant Jozo Hirano. Their dubers are a cosmonaut Roscosmos Alexander Skvortsov and Schun Ogiso. The start of the Soyuz-2.1A carrier missile with the piloted ship “Union MS-20” is scheduled for December 8, 2021.