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 by Staff Writers Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 18, 2019
A manned Soyuz MS spaceship will be launched to the International Space Station using a new Soyuz-2 launch vehicle in the first six months of 2020, Dmitry Baranov, the director general of Russia's Progress Rocket Space Center, told Sputnik. "The first launch of the manned transport spacecraft Soyuz MS using the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle with a crew on board will take place in the first half of 2020," Baranov said. At the moment, manned Soyuz spacecraft are being launched atop Soyuz-FG launch vehicle. Earlier in March, the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station, bringing a new crew to humanity's only orbital outpost. The current ISS crew comprises Russian cosmonaut and Commander Oleg Kononenko, Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques and US astronauts Anne McClain, Nick Hague and Christina Koch. Source: RIA Novosti
First 2019 Proton-M Rocket Launch From Baikonur Slated for May Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Apr 03, 2019 The first 2019 launch of the Russian-built Proton-M carrier rocket with the Blagovest telecommunications satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome will take place on 23 May, a source in the rocket and space industry told Sputnik. Last week, another source told Sputnik that the first 2019 launch of the Proton-M carrier rocket from Baikonur had been postponed from May 17 to 24-25 May. "The launch of the Proton-M carrier rocket with the Briz-M upper stage and the Blagovest satellite from the Baiko ... read more
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