Source: Roscosmos postponed the return to the Earth of the Ship "Soyuz TMA-19M" and the start of "Union MS"

Roscosmos suffered the landing of the TMA-19M spacecraft and the launch of the Union MS. This was reported to "Interfax" by a source in the rocket and space industry.

The "landing" of the TMA -19M Union was postponed to 12:47 June 18, the launch of the Union MS at 09:41 June 24, "the source said. According to him, the launch of the ship "Progress MS-03" was postponed from July 4 to 04:35.

Earlier it was reported that the landing of the manned ship "Soyuz TMA-19M" is scheduled for June 5, 2016 in the central part of Kazakhstan. The Russian astronaut Yuri Malenchenko, the NASA Astronaut Timothy Kopra and the British Timothy Peak should return to the Earth.

The launch of the first manned ship of the new series "Soyuz MS" was scheduled for June 21 of this year from the Baikonur cosmodrome. As expected, the ship is attached to the ISS on June 24. Preparation for this flight as the main crew is held by Russian Anatoly Ivanishin, Japanese Takuya Onishi and American Kathlein Rubens.

"Progress MS-03" will have to deliver more than 2.5 tons of cargo to the ISS: fuel to maintain the orbit of the station, oxygen, containers with power diets, water supply reserves, equipment for scientific experiments, consumption equipment for the operation of the station.

The transport cargo ship of the new modification "Progress MS" was developed by OJSC "Energia" S.P. Korolev "and is the result of a deep modernization of the ship" Progress M ". The ship has a new command-meter system and a modified on-board radio engineering system "Cource on".