Soyuz ships on the launch pad for the mission to send people to ISS

The Russian Soyuz spacecraft mounted on the Soyuz-FG rocket on September 23 was put into a launch pad by the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), in preparation for the mission of carrying three astronauts to work. on the International Space Station (ISS).

RIA Novosti quoted Roscosmos spokesman as saying that moving the missile into the launch pad was planned as planned.

A Russian Soyuz ship mounted on a rocket is located at the launch pad at Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan - (Photo: AFP)

The Soyuz-FG carrying Soyuz TMA-10 will leave the launch pad on the morning of September 26 at the Russian Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

If nothing changes at the last moment, the three astronauts on board will include Oleg Kotov, Sergey Ryazanskiy (same Russian) and Mike Hopkins (NASA).

Upon arriving in ISS, all three will match the three people present on the station to become the 37th full ISS International Fleet.

Currently working on the ISS, three astronauts brought by Soyuz TMA-09M in late May are Fyodor Yurchikhin (Roscosmos), Karen Nyberg (NASA) and Luca Parmitano (Italian, European Space Agency - ESA) with the commander, Fyodor Yurchikhin.

All three will be returned to Earth by Soyuz TMA-09M, while the Soyuz TMA-10's three astronauts will return home in March 2014.