Expedition 45/Visiting Crew Meets Officials and Reporters as Launch Approaches

Expe­di­tion 45/Visiting Crew Meets Offi­cials and Reporters as Launch Approaches



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Expe­di­tion 45 Soyuz Com­man­der Sergei Volkov of the Russ­ian Fed­er­al Space Agency (Roscos­mos) and vis­it­ing crew mem­bers Andreas Mogensen of the Euro­pean Space Agency (ESA) and Aidyn Aim­be­tov of the Kaza­kh Space Agency (Kaz­cos­mos), and their back­ups, Oleg Skripochka and Sergei Prokopy­ev of Roscos­mos and Thomas Pes­quet of ESA appeared before the Russ­ian State Com­mis­sion on Sept. 1 in Baikonur, Kaza­khstan. The com­mis­sion gave its final approval for the launch of Volkov, Mogensen and Aim­be­tov to the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion on Sept. 2, Kaza­kh time in their Soyuz TMA-18M space­craft. The crew mem­bers also con­duct­ed a final prelaunch news con­fer­ence at the Cos­mo­naut Hotel crew quar­ters in Baikonur



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