The 41st international flight crew prepares to go to space

The Russian Federal Space Agency's (Roscosmos) Soyuz spacecraft on September 26 will bring three astronauts, including an American and two Russians, to work on the International Space Station (ISS).

>>>The Soyuz spacecraft sends three astronauts to ISS

According to information on the website of the US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) on September 22, three astronauts including Barry Wilmore (of NASA), Alexander Samokutyayev and Yelena Serova (belonging to Roscosmos) will be served by Soyuz TMA- 14M orbits from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on September 26.

Soyuz astronauts TMA-14M: Barry Wilmore (left), Alexander Samokutyayev (middle) and Yelena Serova - (Photo: AFP)

The Soyuz TMA-14M is expected to leave the launch pad at 2:25 am on September 26 (local time, ie 3 hours 25 minutes on the same day as Vietnam time). Astronauts will fly to ISS on a 6-hour journey.

Upon arrival, the Soyuz crew of TMA-14M will join three people present on the station: Maxime Surayev (Russian), Reid Wiseman (USA) and Alexander Gerst (Germany) of Soyuz TMA-13M to return become the 41st ISS International Flight Group.

The Soyuz TMA-13M leaves the launch pad at Baikonur on May 29, and is expected to return its crew to Earth in November; while Soyuz TMA-14M is expected to go home in March 2015.

Currently, in addition to waiting for the Soyuz TMA-14M ship, the astronauts on ISS are also waiting for the unmanned space transport vessel Dragon of US private company SpaceX to bring 2,300kg of cargo to the station. .

Dragon ship leaves Cape Canaveral Air Base, Florida (USA) on September 21 and is scheduled to arrive at ISS at 18:00 on September 23 (Vietnam time).

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