"Union MS-03" started to the ISS

The manned ship of the new modification "Soyuz MS-03" went to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Baikonur cosmodrome. It is reported by Roscosmos, which led a live transmission of the launch.

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As the expedition, according to Interfax , the cosmonaut Roscosmos Oleg Novitsky, the ESA astronaut Tom Sand and the NASA astronaut Peggy Witson.

At 23:29, the ship successfully entered orbit, the docking to the ISS is scheduled for November 20 at 01:01 Moscow time.

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Novitsky said that 44 experiments will conduct at the ISS. One of them is to study the movement of fluid in the human body. He also added that this time access to outer space is not provided.

The previous expedition ended on October 30. Then the Russian Anatoly Ivanishin, the astronaut JAXA Takuya Onishi and the NASA astronaut Kathlein Rubins performed 40 scientific experiments in orbit, most of which were associated with the study of the impact of the cosmic environment on living organisms and materials.