This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the district.

“As part of the ground search and rescue group, four search and evacuation vehicles moved to the main landing area southeast of Zhezkazgan.

Two crews of the Blue Birds left for the reserve area to take over duty, the statement says.

It is noted that the FEM-1 and FEM-2 amphibious vehicles will deliver servicemen-rescuers, military doctors, individual insulated sets of things for the crew of the descent vehicle and equipment for the safe evacuation of astronauts to the areas of search and rescue operations.

On December 8, Japanese space tourists Yusaku Maezawa and Yozo Hirano, together with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, opened the hatches between the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft and the International Space Station (ISS) and transferred to the station.