July 7 at 4:36 Moscow time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome launched manned spacecraft “Soyuz MS.” This is the first ship in the new series – the result of deep modernization of the precursor ships. It is unique and his crew, and scientific problems that astronauts have to decide on the ISS. Also in space flight went plush Cheburashka.
Currently, the “Union” was separated from the third stage and headed for the ISS, according to television channel “Russia 24″.
The manned ship MS series is designed rocket and space Corporation “Energia”. It was created as a result of deep modernization of the ship “Progress M” and “Soyuz TMA”.
The ship has a new intelligent motor control system. Two fully interchangeable reservoir will help to avoid problems with connection. Not so long ago in the time of arrival of the ship to the ISS previous series there was a malfunction in one of the engines. The ship began to move off to the station. Crew commander Yuri Malenchenko had docked in manual mode. Dangerous moments were not.
But, if that happened on the ship, which went into orbit today, the system would simply switch from one engine to another collector. Among other things, on the “MS Union” greatly improved and stability control systems. Introduced new ground and radio systems, through which it will be possible to use modern information transmission methods.
Members of the new expedition will conduct a unique experiment Spaceshift. They will study the changes in the body of astronauts after long flights. In particular – intracranial pressure problems and decreased visual acuity. Scientists suggest that the changes are due to fluid redistribution in the body in weightlessness. They expect that the research conducted in space, will help to develop means to deal with these common diseases in the world
The research will be conducted in three stages:. Before the flight, during and after. It is interesting that the participants of the experiment in orbit on a regular basis will do an ultrasound. The doctor will be at this time on Earth.
Together with the crew in the flight went plush Cheburashka. The crew called him Chebonavtom. Space travel was organized in honor of the 80th anniversary of “Soyuzmultfilm” and the 55th anniversary of the first manned flight into space. Together with the astronauts Cheburashka cartoons look the best to come out in open space and launch jubilee pennant studio. Chebonavt will orbit a few weeks
Astronaut Roscosmos Anatoly Ivanishin -. The captain, “MS Union,” flight engineer cosmonaut in the world 522 112 Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation, Hero of Russia. Born in 1969 in Irkutsk. In 1991 she graduated with honors and a gold medal graduated from Chernigov Higher Military Aviation School. After graduation he served in the Air Force units in positions of pilot, senior pilot. He mastered aircraft L-39, MiG-29, Su-27. Total flight time – more than 550 hours. The military pilot 3rd class. Instructor parachute training.
In 2003, he graduated from the Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics, and Informatics on specialty “Applied Informatics in Economics”. In the same year was enlisted in the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin Gagarin. In September 2005, AA Ivanishina was awarded the qualification “test cosmonaut.” The first space mission carried out from 14 November 2011 to 27 April 2012 as a flight engineer of the manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-22″. During the flight, 8 corrections orbit station conducted experiments on the Russian scientific program were implemented. It is noteworthy that the crew performed the flight to the station in the last series of the ship “Soyuz TMA”. The flight duration was 165 days
NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins -. Flight engineer of the ship “MS Union”. She was born in 1978. In 1999 he received a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology at the University of California at San Diego. In 2005 received a doctorate in the field of cancer biology at the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology of the Medical Department at Stanford University.
Kathleen Rubins engaged in the study of the mechanism of the human immunodeficiency virus integration in the Infectious Diseases Laboratory of the Institute of Biological Research Salk name. Worked as a researcher-producer of experiments studying viral diseases in Central and West Africa in Biomedical Research Institute at the Institute of Technology in Massachusetts, where he headed the laboratory of 14 employees.
In July 2009 Rubins has been selected as a candidate for astronauts. In May 2011, she completed a course of general space training at the Johnson Space Center. In preparation for the expedition he learned the Russian language and has demonstrated his excellent knowledge during a press conference
The third member of the crew -. Astronaut Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Takuya Onishi, also a flight engineer. He was born in 1975 in Tokyo. In 1998 he graduated from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo and received a bachelor’s degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics. In the same year he started to work in the Japanese airline All Nippon Airways. From 2003 to 2009 he worked as a co-pilot of Boeing-767.
In March 2009, Takuya Onishi was selected as a candidate for the astronauts of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. At the end of cosmonaut training in 2011, Onishi qualification astronaut has been assigned.
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