“Soyuz” this morning delivered into orbit a new crew. A few minutes after the start of the message came that was not revealed the panel one of the two solar cells. The ministry immediately informed: a second running is enough to provide the ship with energy. Station astronauts arrived safely. And when joining the “Union” with the ISS panel suddenly revealed itself.
“Soyuz” this morning delivered into orbit a new crew. A few minutes after the start of the message came that was not revealed the panel one of the two solar cells. The ministry immediately informed: a second running is enough to provide the ship with energy. Station astronauts arrived safely. And when joining the “Union” with the ISS panel suddenly revealed itself.
Prior to that at the request of MCC crew that was waiting for the arrival of colleagues at the station, I took a few pictures of the approaching ship. These images and other data are now carefully studying the world.
At midnight in Moscow – and the roar of the glow in the sky over Baikonur. Carrier rocket “Soyuz” slowly breaks away from the Earth and is heading for the ISS. 800 meters from the start of the station crew of the 44th expedition escorted relatives, colleagues and journalists.
The first nine minutes of the flight – the most difficult, because of the speed and pressure of the astronauts on board have great overload. It becomes easier when the ship will orbit. That came weightlessness, the crew learns special indicator. Robot P-2 of “Star Wars” – a favorite movie American members of the expedition – will begin to float in the air.
The six intense hours awake in the Mission Control Center gaze into appliances. So much takes the route Baikonur – ISS. When in Moscow early in the morning at the station under the sigh of relief from the Earth meet new crew.
On the ISS colleagues waited in May. But because of the April crash truck “Progress” was moved to start today to thoroughly check all systems.
Even on Earth the astronauts told reporters that benefited from the postponement and spend time with their families.
“When we work on the station, then over time start to miss family, for friends, for your friends. When our expedition comes to an end, and we sit down to the ship and undock from the station, then at least case, I always feel regret, “- says the commander of the manned spacecraft” Soyuz TMA-17M “Oleg Kononenko.
a Russian crew commander Oleg Kononenko, his wife and children are escorted to the ISS for the third time. On the sum of the previous flight in orbit, he spent more than a year. Twins Alice and Andrew Pope before the start of seeing the only way – through the glass. Strict medical quarantine does not allow to come closer. They promise to call him every week and debated which of them had become the same as a dad.
“I first want to become an engineer, and then became an astronaut,” – says Alisa Kononenko.
“I’m probably immediately become an astronaut”, – says Andrey Kononenko.
With a Russian crew in the Japanese and American. Together they prepared to fly nearly three years. Kimia Yui spending seems to have arrived journalists all Japanese editions. For astronaut Russian language almost native. In it, he responded to reporters’ questions, even from their own country.
“This is a very great honor, and everything will be fine. Do not worry. I hope my family will watch my start quietly, safely, and can be with joy,” – said the flight engineer of the ship “Soyuz TMA-17M” Kimia Yui.
He was 78, but he really wanted to personally conduct of his son. Together with his father at the Baikonur Kimia Yui came a delegation from his native Nagano. This flight into space for the first Japanese astronaut, as well as for American Cella Lindgren. The doctor recognized by NASA for years of training Russian became the second home.
“The people here are very warm to me are, they are very generous, and I enjoyed the time spent here. 40 years ago, our two great states implemented the project” Soyuz-Apollo “, and I hope the next 40 years We will also work closely with Russia “, – says flight engineer” Soyuz TMA-17M “Chell Lindgren.
In this expedition Chell Lindgren – responsible for medical experiments: the effect of weightlessness on the respiratory system and eyes – questions, answers to which the crew will look for the following 163 days. Experiments, however, not only medical, will remote control robot in the world and the search for the mysterious dark matter.
Before long way over the years spent ritual. Under a song that has long been a kind of hymn of Russian cosmonautics, “Star” bus with the number 01 is traditionally drove the crew to the rocket. After already in spacesuits photos on memory and family farewell smile, they will spend the next six months in orbit 400 kilometers above the house.
Alain Germanova
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