Astrologers have declared half of the ISS. Population station doubled – 3DNews

40/41-y expedition crew safely reached the orbital station. Docking of manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-13″ took place in automatic mode under control specialists Mission Control Center FSUE TsNIIMash. The ship moored to a small research module “Dawn” in Russian segment of the ISS May 29 5:44:04 MSK.

After completing all the necessary checks and opening passageways between the ship and the station crew will begin work 40/41-y expedition consisting of commander NASA astronaut Steven Swanson (Steven Swanson) and flight engineers Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev and Maxim Suraeva as well as ESA and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman (Reid Wiseman) and Alexandra Gersten (Alexander Gerst).

Command” Soyuz TMA- 13M “Maxim Suraev. Three minutes before the start. nasaspaceflight.com

” Soyuz TMA-13M “approaches the ISS. Picture from the station. nasaspaceflight.com

Dawn on the ISS. In the right part of the picture manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-12M” and “Soyuz TMA-13M.” nasaspaceflight.com

Over the next 167 days the team will perform a wide range of work at the station. Planned operation for receiving and unloading Russian cargo spacecraft “Progress M-21M”, “Progress M-23M”, “Progress M-24M”, “Progress M-25M”, European truck ATV-5 “Georges Lemaitre” and U.S. cargo ships Orbital-2 «Cygnus» and SpaceX-4 «Dragon». Three astronauts will also leave the station to carry out operations in the open space of the Russian program. Two outputs are Skvortsov and Artemyev, and the third – sura and Alexander Samokutyaev who arrive at the ISS as part of the next expedition.

The work plan is also included in orbit conducting 45 investigations and experiments in four areas, preparation for shipment Earth of three crew members 39/40-y expedition aboard the “Soyuz TMA-12M ‘participation in operations docking TPK” TMA-14M “to the ISS, and maintain the station resupply the ISS equipment delivered by cargo ships.

Delivery astronauts on the ISS took nearly six o’clock: takeoff rocket “Soyuz” from the launch complex Baikonur cosmodrome site 1 occurred in May 28 23:57:42 microseconds. After 528 seconds of flight manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-13M” in normal mode separated from the third stage rocket orbiting artificial satellite.

According to news agency ITAR-TASS referring to representatives of MCC crew “Soyuz TMA-13M” came to the station at 07:52 MSK after hatches were opened.

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