More than 150 military rescue specialists and medics have been relocated from the Chelyabinsk Region, as well as crews of Mi-8 helicopters, An-26 and AN-12 aircraft and more than 20 units of ground vehicles, including upgraded search and evacuation vehicles PEM-1 and PEM-2 "Blue Bird"
YEKATERINBURG, December 6. /tass/. The servicemen of the Central Military District (CVO) relocated to Kazakhstan to ensure the safety of the launch of the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft with TASS cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his business assistant Yozo Hirano. This is stated in a message distributed on Monday by the press service of the district.
"Military personnel, special equipment of the search and rescue and parachute service (PS and PDS) and crews of the army aviation of the Central Military District (CVO) have been relocated to Kazakhstan to ensure the safety of the launch of the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft with tourists from Japan on board," the message says.
Thus, more than 150 military specialists-rescuers and medics, as well as crews of Mi-8 helicopters, An-26 and An-12 aircraft and more than 20 units of ground vehicles, including upgraded search and evacuation vehicles PEM-1 and PEM-2 "Blue Bird", have been relocated from the Chelyabinsk region. During the flight of the launch vehicle with a manned spacecraft, military rescuers of the Central Military District will be on operational duty at Russian airfields in the settlements of Uprun, Gorno-Altaysk, Kyzyl, Yekaterinburg and on the territory of Kazakhstan at airfields in Karaganda, Baikonur, Zhezkazgan and Arkalyk.
The launch of the Soyuz MS-20 manned spacecraft to the ISS with two space tourists is scheduled for December 8. The duration of the flight will be 12 days. Cosmonaut Misurkin will manage the Soyuz MS-20. By tradition, members of the backup crew of the manned spacecraft, which includes Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov and space tourist Xiong Ogiso, came to observe the removal of the carrier from the assembly and test building.
TASS and Roscosmos signed a memorandum of cooperation on November 17, which implies the creation of an agency office on the International Space Station. The first correspondent of TASS in orbit will be the Hero of Russia cosmonaut of Roscosmos Alexander Misurkin. He will talk about life and work at the station. It will be possible to read his news, as well as to view photos and videos on the agency's information resources.
