Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center has confirmed the installation of the Soyuz FG rocket, which will carry the Soyuz MS15 spacecraft with Hazza Al Mansouri, the first Emirati astronaut on the launch pad No. 1 at the Baikonur space base in Kazakhstan in preparation for a mission. September 25 to the International Space Station.
The Soyuz FG rocket was transported this morning after sunrise, according to tradition, from the spacecraft's building at the Baikonur cosmodrome to the launch platform No. 1 via a railway in the presence of a number of officials. 10 minutes.
The Soyuz MG rocket launcher is the same platform as Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man to go aboard the Vostok-1 spacecraft on April 12, 1961.
Prior to the transfer of the Soyuz FG rocket to the station "Baikonur" adorned with the UAE flag and the emblem of the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center along with the flags of Russia and America.
The Soyuz rocket was first launched in 1966 and was launched by the Energia Korolev missile and space company and built by the Center for Research and Development of Production (Progress) in Samara, Russia.