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Touchdown! Soyuz Spacecraft Lands Safely with Russian-US Crew | Space.com - 0 views

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scibyte63 Soyuz

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  • Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American spaceflyer has landed safely back on Earth
  • 16 September 2012
  • Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, Sergei Revin and NASA astronaut Joe Acaba
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  • local time was early Monday morning.
  • Soyuz crew was in good health and spirits
  • He and his Russian crewmates signed their Soyuz spacecraft, which is destined for a Russian museum
  • 125-day spaceflight began in mid-May and included three spacewalks and several robotic cargo ship arrivals.
  • . The three spaceflyers were originally slated to blast off in March, but a pressure test incident cracked their first Soyuz capsule, causing a six-week delay while another spacecraft was readied.
  • launched on May 14 and arrived at the $100 billion orbiting lab May 17. Just eight days later, SpaceX's robotic Dragon capsule docked with the station on a historic demonstration mission, becoming the first private vehicle ever to do so.
  • on Sept. 5, crewmates Sunita Williams and Akihiko Hoshide performed an extra spacewalk — the third for the mission — to replace a vital power unit on the station's backbone-like truss. Using improvised tools such as spare parts and a toothbrush
  • a stuck bolt that had delayed the fix a week earlier
  • Expedition 33
  • will have the station to themselves until mid-October, when three more astronauts will float through the hatch and bring the expedition up to its full complement of six crewmembers.
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Surreal Images of Soyuz Landing in the Dark - 0 views

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  • problem with the Soyuz’ parachute – it deployed about 5 seconds later than planned – caused the crew to land several miles away from the planned landing site, but a Russian recovery team and NASA personnel reached the landing site by helicopter shortly afterward to assist the crew in getting out of the spacecraft, which landed on its side
  • 127 days in space
  • 125 days spent aboard the International Space Station
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  • Expedition 34 flight engineers — NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield, and Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Roman Romanenko — are scheduled to launch from Baikonur Dec. 19
  • for a five-month stay
  • Hadfield will become the first Canadian to command the station when Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin depart in March, marking the start of Expedition 35.
  • no actual footage of the Soyuz touching down, since it was dark and the spacecraft landed well away from the planned landing spot.
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Space Station Crew Captures Soyuz Launch, As Seen from Orbit - 0 views

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  • The Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft launched at 2:43 a.m. Friday local time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (4:43 p.m. EDT, 20:43 UTC on March 28),
  • crew of Pavel Vinogradov, Aleksandr Misurkin and Chris Cassidy
  • The fast-track launch had the crew arriving in just 5 hours and 45 minutes after launch
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Soyuz Makes Record-Breaking 'Fast Track' to Space Station - 0 views

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  • The new abbreviated four-orbit rendezvous with the ISS uses a modified launch and docking profile for the Russian ships
  • It has been tried successfully with three Progress resupply vehicles, but this is the first time it has been used on a human flight.
  • In the past, Soyuz manned capsules and Progress supply ships were launched on trajectories that required about two days, or 34 orbits, to reach the ISS.
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  • The new fast-track trajectory has the rocket launching shortly after the ISS passes overhead
  • Then, additional firings of the vehicle’s thrusters early in its mission expedites the time required for a Russian vehicle to reach the Station
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Soyuz Spacecraft Docks at Space Station with New US-Russian Crew | Space.com - 0 views

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  • 25 October 2012
  • Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft docked at the space station's rooftop Poisk module at 8:29 a.m. EDT (1229 GMT)
  • two-day orbital chase
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  • American astronaut Kevin Ford of NASA
  • Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy
  • Evgeny Tarelkin
  • stay until March
  • launched into space on Tuesday (Oct. 23
  • second half of the space station's six-person Expedition 33 crew
  • bringing some fishy friends to the space station
  • ferrying 32 small medaka fish to the space station so they can be placed inside a tank, called the Aquatic Habitat, for an experiment to study how fish adapt to weightlessness.
  • robotic Dragon space capsule
  • depart the space station on Sunday (Oct. 28)
  • will return nearly 2,000 pounds (907 kilograms) of science experiment hardware and other gear back to Earth.
  • Wednesday (Oct. 31), an unmanned Russian Progress spacecraft will launch toward the space station and arrive six hours later to make a Halloween delivery of food, equipment and other Halloween treats.
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Soyuz Launches New Crew to Space Station - 0 views

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January 15 - Today in Science History - Scientists born on January 15th, died, and events - 0 views

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  • Spacecrafts dock
  • In 1969, the first docking of two manned spacecraft took place between the Soviet Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5.
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SpaceX Launching Student Experiments & Emblems on ISS Flight | Space.com - 0 views

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scibyte47 SpaceX dragon iss PrivateSpaceTravel

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  • then the 15 experiments comprising "Aquarius"
  • will be among the first payloads delivered to the station on a commercial cargo craft.
  • competition among students to fly experiments
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  • to design their mission patches
  • A total of 779 student teams submitted proposals for the 15 science slots and nearly 5,000 students offered 2,299 insignia ideas from which just 22 were chosen.
  • Ironically, none of the almost two dozen student mission patches that were selected to fly depict the vehicle that their experiments are riding on.
  • The designs, which range from crayon-colored creations to computer-assisted drawings, also include representations of the Earth, moon and Mars and the American flag.
  • Aquarius, which utilizes liquid mixing tube assemblies that function similar to commercial glow sticks
  • two similar student flight opportunities
  • on NASA's final two space shuttle missions
  • was first slated to fly on a Soyuz spacecraft.
  • When the students' experiments were re-manifested, they went from launching on the Russian rocket to the SpaceX Dragon.
  • The Aquarius package will stay in space for just under six weeks before coming back to Earth on Soyuz TMA-03M, the same spacecraft returning three ISS crew members on July 1.
  • The students' patches will also make the round trip, and will be embossed with a certification stating that they flew in space.
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Landing Pictures: Space Station Expedition 31 Crew Returns to Earth | Space.com - 0 views

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  • Soyuz Landing Photos: 31st Space Station Crew Returns to Earth
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Veteran Space Station Crew to Launch Into Orbit Tonight | Space.com - 0 views

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  • July 14
  • NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency spaceflyer Akihiko Hoshide 
  • part of the space station's Expedition 32 mission, and is due to stay for about four months.
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  • Three veteran space travelers from three different countries are gearing up to launch toward the International Space Station
  • will join the three spaceflyers already living on the space station: commander Gennady Padalka of Russia, his cosmonaut colleague Sergei Revin, and NASA astronaut Joe Acaba, who have all been in space since May.
  • Malenchenko: Malenchenko, 50, is a colonel in the Russian Air Force and will command the Soyuz spacecraft for Russia's Federal Space Agency. He is making his third trip
  • first long-duration spaceflight aboard Russia's Mir space station.
  • Sunita Williams: Williams, 46, hails from Needham, Mass., and is a U.S. Navy captain making her second long-duration spaceflight
  • Williams currently holds the world record for most spacewalks by a woman (four) and the most time in space by a female astronaut (195 days
  • Akhiko Hoshide: Hoshide, 44, is an astronaut with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and is making his second spaceflight
  • Hoshide first flew to the space station in 2008
  • to deliver Japan's huge Kibo laboratory module to the International Space Station.
  • Through the remainder of this year, 200 experiments will be performed
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Soyuz Lands Safely with Space Station Crew and Olympic Torch - 0 views

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  • Expedition 37 crew members Karen Nyberg of NASA, Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency have returned to Earth from the International Space Station
  • after spending 166 days in space.
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New US-Russian Crew Docks at Space Station After Super-Fast Flight | Space.com - 0 views

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  • Before now, manned trips to the space station have taken at least two days, but with the docking of this ship just six hours after liftoff
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Keeping immune cells alive and kicking - 0 views

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  • Blood samples are frozen in the Space Station’s freezer for preservation before being returned to Earth for analysis
  • ROALD experiments are looking at why certain human cells replicate less in space
  • New results from research on the International Space Station are offering clues on why astronauts’ immune systems don’t work as well in space
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  • discovered that a particular enzyme, called 5-LOX, becomes more active in weightlessness.  
  • 5-LOX enzyme in part regulates the life expectancy of human cells
  • Blood samples from two healthy donors were sent to the orbital outpost
  • One set was exposed to weightlessness for two days, while the other was held in a small centrifuge to simulate Earth-like gravity
  • samples were then frozen and sent back to Earth for analysis.
  • weightless samples showed more 5-LOX activity than the centrifuged samples
  • centrifuged samples remained identical to the ground samples
  • We now have a target enzyme
  • e 5-LOX enzyme can be blocked with existing drugs, so using these findings to improve human health could be a close reality
  • Research will continue
  • follow-up experiment returned to Earth in a Soyuz capsule with the Expedition 30 crew last week
  • Scientists will look for other changes in the cells to understand the underlying mechanisms fully.
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Expedition 32 Lands Safely in Kazakhstan - 0 views

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  • landed
  • 02:54 UTC on Monday, September 17 (8:53 a.m. Kazakhstan time Monday, 10:53 p.m. EDT Sunday, September 16
  • Expedition 33 is now underway as Commander Suni Williams and Flight Engineers Aki Hoshide and Yuri Malenchenko continue their stay until Nov. 12
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The Olympic Torch That Went Around the World… Literally - 0 views

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  • Ever since the first relay for the 1936 summer Olympic games in Berlin, Olympic torches have traditionally been used to carry a burning flame
  • from Greece to the host country’s stadium
  • On Nov. 6, 2013 (Nov. 7 UT) a Soyuz TMA-11M rocket launched
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  • the Expedition 38/39 crew to the ISS
  • Along with their mission supplies and personal items, the crew members brought along something special: a torch for the 2014 Olympics.
  • The torch was brought into space two days later
  • during an EVA on Nov. 9, and handed off from one cosmonaut to the other in a symbolic relay in orbit
  • “symbolic” because the torch was not lit during its time aboard the ISS or, obviously, while in space
  • the ISS travels around the Earth 16 times each day, and the torch spent nearly four days in space
  • it will be that particular spacefaring torch that will be used to light the 2014 Olympic cauldron during the Opening Ceremony in Sochi on Feb. 7.
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Crew Launches to Space Station with Olympic Torch - 0 views

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  • In an usual situation, when the new crew arrives, there will be nine crew members and three Soyuz vehicles at the ISS
  • The new crew is bringing the unlit torch along, then
  • the space station’s current crew, will take the torch out on a spacewalk,
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  • The real reason for the spacewalk is to do some routine Russian maintenance outside the station
  • Then,
  • three crew members will return
  • and they will bring the torch back home
  • The torch then will be given back to Olympic officials and it will be used in the opening ceremonies of the February games
  • There have not been nine crew members on the ISS since 2009.
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