space environment (№ 356 ) 08.12.2021 (2021)

On December 8, 2021, the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with the Soyuz MS-20 manned spacecraft will launch from site No. 31 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

The main crew consists of the ship's commander Alexander Misurkin and Japanese entrepreneurs Yusaku Maesawa and Yozo Hirano.

The planned duration of the flight is 12 days, and all this time is scheduled literally by the minute.

A special edition of the program tells about the last days of pre-flight training, about the personal plans of the crew and about the planned experiments on the ISS.