State Commission to send next expedition to ISS

On Tuesday, February 22, 2022, in the state corporation “Roskosmos”, chaired by the Director General of Dmitry Rogozin, a meeting of the State Commission on the conduct of flight tests of manned space complexes was held.

The State Commission approved the proposal of the National Space Corporation “Energy” named after S. P. Korolev approved by the Council of the Main Designers (Roskosmos State Corporation) on the launch of March 18, 2022 of the piloted ship “Union MS-21” with the crew of the 67th Expeditions to the International Space Station.

It is expected that on March 14, a meeting of the State Commission on the readiness for the removal of the Soyuz-2.1A carrier missile with the “Union MS-21” ship on the starting complex of the site No. 31 of the Baikonur cosmodrome, March 17 – Meeting of the State Commission on Approval The main and duplicating crews of the ISS-67, March 18 – a meeting of the State Commission on the readiness of the rocket to refueling and starting.

The main crew of the ISS-67 includes the cosmonauts of Roscosmos Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveyev and Sergey Korsakov, to the duplicating – Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitry Perezin and Anna Kikina.

The State Commission also adopted the proposal of the Technical Manual on the completion of March 30, 2022, the flight of the Soyuz MS-19 ship with the crew of the ISS-66 – Roscosmos Cosmonauts Anton Dracker and Peter Dubrovy and Astronaut NASA Mark Wanda Haem.

/Media reports.