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Carrier rocket with Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft mounted on launching pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome

The launch of the spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled for 14:31 Moscow time, December 3, from the first launching pad ("Gagarin Start")

BAIKONUR /Kazakhstan/, December 1. /TASS/. The Soyuz-FB carrier rocket with the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft was mounted on a launching pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Roscosmos state corporation told TASS on Saturday.

"The transportation of the Soyuz-FG carrier rocket by the transport manned spacecraft Soyuz MS-11 from the operations and checkout facility to the launching pad was carried out in accordance with the decision of the state commission," a Roscosmos representative said.

The launch of the spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled for 14:31 Moscow time, December 3, from the first launching pad ("Gagarin Start"). The Soyuz will dock at the orbital station the same day at 20:36 Moscow time.

Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, NASA astronaut Anne McClain and Canadian Space Agency’s astronaut David Saint-Jacques will fly to the ISS onboard the Soyuz MS-10. Their flight was scheduled for late December, but it was rescheduled for December 3 after a Soyuz-FG booster failure inflight.