On March 14, 2019, at 22:14 MSK, Soyuz-FG launch vehicle with Soyuz MS-12 manned transport vehicle took off from launch pad №1 (Gagarin’s Start) of the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

At 22:23 MSK Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft detached from the third launch vehicle stage under normal conditions at the planned near-Earth orbit and continued its autonomous flight to the International Space Station under the guidance of the specialists from the Russian Mission Control Center.

The approach of Soyuz MS-12 to the station and its docking to the Rassvet small research module will be done automatically using the four-orbit maneuver. The spacecraft’s docking to the ISS is planned for March 15, 2019, at 04:07 MSK.

Soyuz MS-12 is carrying the crew of the ISS Expedition 59/60: Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin, and NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch.

On March 15, 2019, Soyuz MS-12 manned spacecraft successfully docked the docking unit of Rassvet small research module of the Russian segment of the International Space Station. The docking took place at 04:02 MSK.

The flight program envisioned the four-orbit rendezvous. The approach was done automatically under control of the specialists of the Chief operational crew for the management of the Russian segment of the ISS at the Mission Control Center and of the Russian members of the station and spacecraft’s crews.

Soyuz-FG launch vehicle carrying Soyuz MS-12 manned spacecraft took off on March 14, 2019, at 22:14 MSK. The spacecraft delivered to the ISS the members of ISS Expedition 59/60: Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin (Roscosmos), and American astronauts Nick Hague (NASA) and Christina Koch (NASA).

The crews of the transport vehicle and ISS are currently preparing to open transfer hatches so that the spacecraft’s crew can move to the station.

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