Russia is preparing a Soyuz launch

The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) said on March 22 that its Soyuz spacecraft will leave its launch pad on June 5, six days later than expected, according to AFP.

A mission of Russian Soyuz ship - Photo: AFP

Accordingly, Soyuz TMA-21 will take three astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), after leaving the launch pad at Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2:18 pm on 5.4 (Russian time). , 18 hours 18 minutes on the same day, VN time.

Previously, Soyuz TMA-21 was scheduled to take off on March 30, but the flight had to be postponed due to a problem with the ship's ground communications unit.

The crew of the Soyz mission this time is an astronaut from the US Space and Aeronautics Agency (NASA) Ronald Garan and two Russian astronauts Alexander Samokutyayev, Andrei Borisenko. They will arrive in ISS after about two days of flying.

Soyuz TMA-21 crew (from left to right): Ronald Garan, Alexandr Samokutyaev and Andrey
Borisenko - Photo: Reuters

This was a very meaningful trip for them as Russia celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first human flight into space with the hero Yuri Gagarin on the Oriental train, carrying out the historic mission on the day. April 12, 1961.

Three Soyuz TMA-21 astronauts will match the three astronauts present at ISS, Russian commander Dmitry Kondratyev, American astronaut Catherine Coleman and Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli to become flying crews. International ISS 27th.

It is known that on the past 16.3, Roskosmos also welcomed Soyuz TMA-01М ship with three astronauts as commander of the 26th US ISS international fleet Scott Kelly, Oleg Skripochka and Alexander Kaleri (the same of Russia) returned Earth after 6 months working on ISS.

Soyuz TMA-01М ship returned to Earth on March 16 - Photo: AFP