October 8, 2016 was held the first re-training primary and backup crews of the transport manned spacecraft "Soyuz-02 MS" at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The astronauts have tried and tested for leaks suits and have been instructed in communications TPK "MS-02 Soyuz" and repeated the instructions received during the first workout to ship in September 2016.
October 6, 2016 the State Commission has identified a new date for the launch of the manned spacecraft "Soyuz MC" - 19 October. Earlier start "MS-02 Alliance" has been postponed, and this time the crews members continued to train in the Cosmonaut Training Center. Gagarin (CPC) in the suburban town of Star.
The structure of the main crew of the ship consists of Roskosmos cosmonaut Sergei Ryzhikov Andrei Borisenko and NASA astronaut Robert Shane Kimbrough. Backup crew: Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin and Nikolai Tikhonov, NASA astronaut Mark Vanden High.
