BAIKONUR. Dec 4 (Interfax) - The scheduled launch of the Soyuz manned spacecraft will make it possible to get back to "the normal work," including research, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operation William Gerstenmaier said.
The crew is onboard the ISS, and now can restart the routine ISS operation, Gerstenmaier said at a press briefing on Monday, noting that painstaking work is to be done, the Dragon spacecraft and a Progress resupply ship will be launched, while research and experiments that have been planned are being intensively carried out.
He said that the crew had been delivered to the ISS absolutely on time.
It is very important now that they have been brought there, and there is a crew appropriate for fruitful operation of the mixed crew, he said.