On November 27 at 12:27 Moscow time, the launch of the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket will take place, which will send the crew of the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft into space, consisting of commander Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, flight engineers Sergei Mikaev and Christopher Williams.
For the first time in history, the rocket was decorated with drawings made by children fighting cancer. The charitable project "Space Therapy through Art", thanks to which the space dreams of children from 50 cities in Russia and 14 countries of the world will go into orbit, is being implemented jointly by the Unity Foundation and Roscosmos. And more than 50 children will come to the launch on November 27 to see the legendary launch with their own eyes.
The flight will take place according to a super-fast scheme (two orbits around the Earth) and will take only about three hours. The rocket will be put into orbit by the RD-107A/RD-108A engines of the United Engine Corporation of Rostec, which are once again ready to confirm their reliability.
Together with the crew of Soyuz MS-28, more than 125 kg of payload, materials for experiments will be sent to the ISS:
- "MSK-2" — studies the effect of space on a subspecies of stem cells that can turn into bone and cartilage tissue cells. In the future, such stem cells will be used for tissue-like implants;
- "LAZMA" — a system for monitoring changes in blood flow in capillaries and metabolic reactions in zero gravity;
- "Cytomechanarium" — investigates the effect of cosmic radiation and microgravity on the germ cells of Drosophila flies;
- "FAGEN" — will test the resistance to space conditions of bacteriophage viruses used as an analogue of antibiotics;
- "Cascade" — explores the process of cultivating cells of microorganisms, animals and humans in zero gravity.
You can see the launch broadcast live on November 27 at the link.
Earlier www1.ru wrote that the Soyuz MS-28 rocket was taken out to the Baikonur launch complex.