Expedition 53–54 Training and Prelaunch Activities Aug. 28 — Sept. 6

Expe­di­tion 53–54 Train­ing and Prelaunch Activ­i­ties Aug. 28 — Sept. 6



NASA,Expedition 53–54,Alexander Misurkin,Roscosmos,Mark Vande Hei,Joe Acaba,Anton Shkaplerov,Scott Tingle,Shannon Walker,Soyuz,Baikonur Cosmodrome,Gagarin Cos­mo­naut Train­ing Center



Expe­di­tion 53–54 Soyuz Com­man­der Alexan­der Mis­urkin of Roscos­mos and Flight Engi­neers Mark Vande Hei and Joe Aca­ba of NASA and their back­ups, Anton Shkaplerov of Roscos­mos and Scott Tin­gle and Shan­non Walk­er of NASA con­duct­ed their first Soyuz vehi­cle fit check in the Inte­gra­tion Facil­i­ty at the Baikonur Cos­mod­rome in Kaza­khstan Aug. 28 and final qual­i­fi­ca­tion train­ing at the Gagarin Cos­mo­naut Train­ing Cen­ter in Star City, Rus­sia Aug. 30 and 31. On Sep­tem­ber 1 both the prime and back­up crews held a news con­fer­ence and toured the Gagarin Muse­um at the Gagarin Cos­mo­naut Train­ing Cen­ter in Star City, Rus­sia. They viewed his­toric space arti­facts, and vis­it­ed Red Square in Moscow for tra­di­tion­al cer­e­monies, includ­ing the lay­ing of flow­ers at the Krem­lin Wall where Russ­ian space icons are interred. The Expe­di­tion 53 crew par­tic­i­pat­ed in tra­di­tion­al cer­e­monies Sept. 6 at the Gagarin Cos­mo­naut Train­ing Cen­ter in Star City, Rus­sia, out­side Moscow. After­ward, they depart­ed for the Baikonur Cos­mod­rome in Kaza­khstan to com­plete train­ing for launch of Mis­urkin, Vande Hei and Aca­ba Sept. 13 from the Baikonur Cos­mod­rome in Kaza­khstan in the Soyuz MS-06 space­craft for a five-and-a-half-month mis­sion aboard the Inter­na­tion­al Space Station.



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