“This 'rebuilding' is necessary to free the port on the Rassvet module for the Soyuz MS-19 manned spacecraft, which is to arrive at the station on October 5 with Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, film director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild within the framework of a scientific and educational project "Call" - said in a message on the website of "Roskosmos".
On board the Soyuz MS-18 are Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov, as well as US astronaut Mark Vande Hai.
Earlier it became known that the ship "Yu.A.
Gagarin "undocked from the ISS.