The general assembly of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle with the crewed Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft has been completed at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The Roscosmos State Corporation published a photograph of the assembled rocket.

Soyuz MS-29 will deliver the crew of the 75th main expedition to the International Space Station. Its crew includes Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov (commander) and Anna Kikina (flight engineer), as well as NASA astronaut Anil Menon.

The day before, specialists conducted an author's inspection of the spacecraft and performed the fairing rollout, which protects Soyuz MS-29 from aerodynamic and thermal loads when passing through dense layers of the atmosphere. Earlier, the spacecraft passed solar panel checks and vacuum chamber tests for hermeticity.

The rocket launch is scheduled for 17:43 Moscow time on July 14. The flight to the ISS will follow a two-orbit rendezvous scheme and will take about three hours. On orbit, the crew will spend more than eight months, perform two spacewalks in November 2026 and January 2027, and conduct a series of scientific experiments, including the "Teledroid" project.