ROSCOSMOS - Soyuz TMA07M Mission patch.
21/12/2012
December 21, 18 hours 08 minutes MSK manned transport spacecraft "Soyuz TMA-07M", was successfully launched on December 19 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, automatically docked with the research module Rassvet at 9:09 a.m. EST on Friday after spending two days in orbit.
Soyuz TMA07M arrival at the Station
After checking airtightness between the spacecraft and the module will open passageways. After that, the ISS crew will TPK "Soyuz TMA-07M" in the Roman Romanenko (Roscosmos), Chris Hadfield (Canadian Space Agency) and Thomas Marshburn (NASA). They will join the crew at the station as part of the ISS Commander Kevin Ford, flight engineer Oleg Novitsky and Eugene Tarelkin.
Soyuz TMA-07M docking ISS
After opening the hatch room main mission will change to 34/35, and the crew will consist of six members.
Image above: The six-member Expedition 34 crew participates in a welcome ceremony with family members and mission officials. Credit: NASA TV.
The expedition will continue to carry out experiments in space biotechnology, biomedical research, remote sensing of the Earth, solar system exploration, space material science, geophysics and exploration of near space, as well as education and development of the technology.
Artist's view of the docking of the Soyuz TMA at the Space Station
According to the flight program scheduled to run programs for scientific and applied research and experimentation, spacewalk, working with cargo spacecraft "Progress M-16M", "Progress M-17M", "Progress M-18M", "Progress M- 19M "as well as with European cargo spacecraft ATV4.
All crew members TPK "Soyuz TMA-07M" have the experience of space flight to the International Space Station. Roman Romanenko completed his first space flight from May 27 to December 1, 2009 as the commander of the WPK "Soyuz TMA-15" and ISS flight engineer. Chris Hadfield performed two space flights: from 12 to 20 November 1995 as a specialist one in the crew STS-74 and from April 19 to May 1, 2001 as a Mission Specialist-1 in the crew of STS-100. In the space career Thomas Marshburn one space mission from 15 to 31 July 2009 as a specialist in the crew of STS-127.
Original text in Russian: http://www.federalspace.ru/main.php?id=2&nid=19786
Read more about Expedition 34 (NASA): http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition34/index.html
Send a holiday postcard to the station crew: http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/postcard/
Images, Video, Text, Credits: Press Service of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos PAO) / ROSCOSMOS / ROSCOSMOS TV / NASA / NASA TV / Translation: Orbiter.ch Aerospace.
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