Posts Tagged ‘Soyuz’
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
Expedition 22 commander Jeff Williams and Russian flight engineer Maxim Suraev have landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan at 11:24 GMT on Thursday, following the undocking of their Soyuz TMA-16 from the International Space Station (ISS). Meanwhile, ISS managers have reviewed the status of the orbital outpost, including a major debate on STS-133’s addition to [...]
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Tags: Soyuz, STS-133
Published in Featured, Russian, Shuttle
Monday, February 15th, 2010
Rollover of Discovery is still pending, due to temperature constraints relating to several systems on the orbiter, resulting in new rollover date of February 22. Meetings are also likely to recommend to delay the launch until early April, to allow the Russian Soyuz TMA-18 to dock at the ISS – pending evaluations on the constraint [...]
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Tags: Soyuz, STS-131, STS-132
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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
International Space Station Program (ISSP) and Space Shuttle Program (SSP) engineers have updated NASA on the safety issues pertaining to Dual-Docked Operations (DDO) between the Space Shuttle and various Russian visiting vehicles making use of the numerous Russian docking ports. Meanwhile, the three man crew of Soyuz TMA-17 have docked with the Station.
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Tags: ISS, Soyuz
Published in Featured, Russian, Shuttle
Sunday, December 20th, 2009
Oleg Kotov (Russia), Timothy Creamer (NASA) and Soichi Noguchi (Japan) have launched on board the Russian Soyuz TMA-17 on Sunday, taking aim on the International Space Station (ISS) where they will join NASA’s Jeff Williams, commander of the Expedition 22 crew. The crew launched at 4:51pm Eastern from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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Tags: Soyuz
Published in Russian
Sunday, October 11th, 2009
International Space Station Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka, Flight Engineer Michael Barratt and spaceflight participant Guy Laliberte have landed safely in their Soyuz TMA-14 on the steppes of Kazakhstan Sunday morning. The trio left the ISS just a few hours prior to landing, leaving a Station that is now busily working through its Expedition 21 [...]
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Tags: Dextre, HTV, ISS, Soyuz
Published in Featured, Russian
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Soyuz Commander Max Suraev, NASA Flight Engineer Jeff Williams and spaceflight participant Guy Laliberte launched aboard the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2:14 am (Central). Meanwhile, NASA controllers have been looking into Soyuz “Safe Haven” procedures, in the event of late conjunction threats to the Station.
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Tags: ISS, Soyuz
Published in Featured, Russian
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
ESA astronaut Frank De Winne, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk have launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 10:34 GMT on Wednesday, with their Soyuz TMA-15 scheduled to dock with the International Space Station (ISS) at 12:36 GMT on Friday 29 May – marking the start of six crew operations [...]
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Tags: CSA, Dextre, ESA, ISS, Soyuz
Published in European, Russian
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
Expedition 18 Commander Michael Fincke, Flight Engineer and Soyuz TMA-13 Commander Yury Lonchakov and space tourist Charles Simonyi have returned home safely, following their landing in Kazakhstan this morning. The safe return backs up the findings presented in an expansive NASA and Russian document that outlined the off-nominal ballistic re-entries of Soyuz TMA-10 and 11, [...]
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Tags: ISS, Soyuz
Published in Featured, Russian
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
A Russian Soyuz launch vehicle has launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 6:49am CDT, carrying NASA astronaut Michael Barratt, Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, and spaceflight participant and U.S. software engineer Charles Simonyi.
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Tags: ISS, Soyuz
Published in Russian
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Expedition 18 crewmembers Yury Lonchakov and Michael Fincke have performed a Russian spacewalk (ISS RS EVA-21), which has included the installation of a probe to aid the on-going investigation into the off-nominal re-entries of two Soyuz vehicles. Meanwhile, the continued assessments into work conducted during STS-126’s EVAs on the Solar Alpha Rotary Joints (SARJs) are [...]
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Tags: EVA, ISS, Russian, SARJ, Soyuz, STS-126
Published in Featured, Russian