Roscosmos, archive. Preparation and launch of the Soyuz-2.1а" and the Soyuz MS-20 transport ship (2021)

Baikonur, Yuzhny Shopping center.

MIC (assembly and testing building), workshop, head fairing.

The Soyuz MS-20 ship is in the slipway.

Specialists at work.

Preparation for the rolling of the head fairing, the tilt of the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft.

View of the workshop and the ship from above.

Specialists connect the wires.

CPC (Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center), ISS simulator, Russian segment.

Press service shooting: Alexander Misurkin, Yusaku Maesawa and Yozo Hirano record greetings and wishes for athletes on camera (in English).

CPC, ISS simulator, Russian segment.

Press service shooting: Alexander Misurkin, Yusaku Maesawa and Yozo Hirano record greetings and wishes for athletes on camera (in English).

Baikonur, Yuzhny Shopping center.

MIC, workshop, head fairing, Soyuz MS-20 ship in the stocks.

Specialists work inside and outside the ship.

MIC, workshop, head fairing, Soyuz MS-20 ship in the stocks.

Checking the operation of solar panels.

Cosmonauts arrive by bus to the RSC Energia building.

Preparation for the pre-flight press conference.

Astronauts in spacesuits, photo and video shooting.

Fitting the lodgment (Misurkin).

Astronauts are photographed against the background of a spaceship.

"Fitting" of a spaceship.

The head fairing.

Astronauts inside the ship.

The crew gets out.

MIC, workshop, combat crew on formation, briefing.

Night, the removal of the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with the Soyuz MS-20 transport ship from the MIC.

Morning, delivery of the rocket to the launch pad.

Rocket verticalization (shooting from the ground and from the copter); fog, floodlights.

Mixing farms (normal shooting and timelapse, raindrops on the camera lens).

The second training session in MIKA.

Cosmonauts arrive by bus to the RSC Energia building.

The hall for the preflight press conference.

Astronauts in the MIX.

Photographing.

Astronauts climb into the ship.

Timelapse: the general plan of the workshop, the ship and the launch vehicle in the stocks vertically.

Astronauts leave the ship.

Photography.

Astronauts communicate with the management in the press conference hall.

MIC, workshop, specialists work with the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft.

The ship is moved to a horizontal position.

Specialists remove the protective elements, vacuum the recesses and grooves.

Knurling and fixing of the head fairing.

The verticalization of the Soyuz spacecraft in the stocks; the Progress ship is standing next to it in the stocks.

MIC, workshop, combat crew on formation, briefing.

General assembly of the rocket.

The plane lands and maneuvers on the tarmac.

Cosmonauts get out of the plane, the main crew: Alexander Misurkin, Yusaku Maesawa, Yozo Hirano.

Meeting with the state Commission, greeting.

Cosmonauts and members of the state commission on the background of the plane.

Cosmonauts greet the audience, people shout and wave Russian flags.

Photographing astronauts on the background of a bus.

Flags are fluttering in the wind.

The plane lands.

Arrival of the backup crew, Alexander Skvortsov and Xiong Ogiso get off the plane.

Meeting with the state Commission, greeting.

Cosmonauts and members of the state commission are photographed against the background of an airplane.

Astronauts go to the buses.

Photographing astronauts on the background of a bus.

Alexander Skvortsov and Xiong Ogiso get on the bus.

Buses on the background of the airport building.

MIC, installation of the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft on the PHO (transition compartment).

Yusaku Maezawa celebrates his birthday.

Fellow astronauts leave autographs, congratulations and wishes on a sheet of Whatman.

Astronauts sign photos.

Cosmonauts and other members of the task force congratulate Yusaku Maezawa on his birthday, applause.

Oleg Kononenko congratulates the cosmonaut and presents a bouquet of flowers.

Presentation of a poster with congratulations and autographs.

Doctor Sergey Savin reads poetry, hands the birthday boy a Kazakh dish with an inscription on the bottom on the reverse side.

Yusaku Maezawa talks to his compatriots in Japanese.

Baikonur, launch of the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with the Soyuz MS-20 transport ship (shooting from different plans, from the ground and the copter, cutting).

The cosmonauts' exit from the hotel to the song "Grass at home" performed by the group "Earthlings".

The crews say goodbye to the mourners.

Astronauts get on the bus, people continue taking photos; the song "Grass at home" is performed by the duo "Deep" (formerly "Ichigo Tanuki").

Buses leave for the cosmodrome.