Published on January 9, 2018
At the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft and its Soyuz booster were transported from the Integration Facility to the launch pad on a railcar July 26 for final preparations before launch to the International Space Station on July 28. The Soyuz MS-05 will carry Expedition 52-53 Soyuz Commander Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos and Flight Engineers Randy Bresnik of NASA and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency to the orbital complex fo a four and a half mont mission.
