Expedition 65 Space Station Crew Prepares for Launch as Soyuz Rolls to the Pad

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 65 Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos and Flight Engineers Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos and Mark Vande Hei of NASA participated in final prelaunch training activities as the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft that will launch them to the International Space Station was transported to the launch pad in Baikonur April 6. The crew’s backups, Anton Shkaplerov and Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos and Anne McClain of NASA also participated in the training. Novitskiy, Dubrov and Vande Hei are preparing for launch April 9 for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. The footage includes the crew’s final Soyuz fit check activities on April x and the rollout of the Soyuz rocket to the launch pad in Baikonur on April 6.