Next Space Station Crew Ready for Debut Soyuz MS Flight

Police officers with a sniffer dog check a railway as the Soyuz MS spacecraft for the next International Space Station (ISS) crew of Kate Rubins of the U.S., Anatoly Ivanishin of Russia and Takuya Onishi of Japan is ready to be transported from an assembling hangar to the launchpad ahead of its launch scheduled on July 7, at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan July 4, 2016. The flight, initially scheduled for June 24, was delayed due to spacecraft software glitches that could have impacted the docking with the ISS. The mission received designation Soyuz MS-01 as it is the first flight of the upgraded Soyuz vehicle. As usual, the spacecraft will be launched atop Russia’s workhorse Soyuz-FG booster, designed for manned missions. The journey to the ISS will take more than two days, during which the crew is expected to test modified systems of the spacecraft. (Photo by Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters)
Next Space Station Crew Ready for Debut Soyuz MS Flight
   
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