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Payload Fairing Installed on Soyuz TMA-15M. / November 17, 2014 /

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the Soyuz-FG ILV with the Soyuz TMA-15M manned transport cargo ship is being prepared for launch.
On 17 November, in assembly & test building, Pad 254 the specialists of the Russian Rocket and Space Industry checked the spacecraft for compliance with the technical documentation. Upon checking, the spacecraft parts and assemblies were photographed.

The installation of the payload fairing on the spacecraft concluded the works following which the spacecraft was returned to stand to be prepared for the second drill of the primary and back-up crews.
Soyuz-FG/Soyuz TMA-15M with primary crew Anton Shkaplerov (ROSCOSMOS), Samantha Cristoforettii (ESA), and Terry Virts (NASA) is scheduled for launch for 24 November 2014 at 00:01 Moscow Time.

ROSCOSMOS Press Service

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