“Among those who go to the cosmodrome to continue prelaunch training are Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin, Alexander Skvortsov, as well as space flight participants from Japan Yusaku Maezawa, Yozo Hirano and Shun Ogiso,” the message says.

In August, Dmitry Rogozin, the general director of Roscosmos, announced that the launch of the Soyuz MS-20 manned spacecraft with two space tourists is scheduled for December 8.

The flight duration will be 12 days.