Saturday, July 14, 2012

"Soyuz TMA-05M" with the crew of a new expedition to the ISS in orbit"Soyuz TMA-05M"

"Soyuz TMA-05M" with the crew of a new expedition to the ISS in orbit"Soyuz TMA-05M", launched to the International Space Station (ISS) with a new crew of astronauts, separated from the carrier rocket "Soyuz-FG" and went to an intermediate orbit, told RIA Novosti representative of the Russian Space Agency.
"Department of the ship from the third stage carrier was nominally in the estimated time," - said.Joining the "Union TMA-05M" to the ISS is scheduled for July 17 at 8.52 Moscow time in the automatic mode. As expected, the new crew of Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, NASA astronaut Sanita Williams, and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide Agency JAXA will conduct the ISS more than 30 science experiments.In addition, crews will unload and several transport ships. In particular, the Japanese truck on the ISS will be delivered to five miniature satellites that will launch astronauts themselves with the Japanese as a manipulator. Buy this imageISS - the biggest space project, and involves 16 countries.As head of the Russian Federal Space Agency told reporters Vladimir Popovkin, the most intense and hardest part - Start the vehicle and its injection into orbit - was successful."I talked to the astronauts, they feel good. On the seventeenth number of scheduled docking with the station. We have no doubts that everything will go well", - he said.

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