ROSCOSMOS - Soyuz TMA-09M Mission patch.
May 29, 2013
Image above: Soyuz TMA-09M Approaching the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA TV / Screen capture: Orbiter.ch Aerospace.
The Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft carrying three new Expedition 36 crew members docked with the International Space Station’s Rassvet module around 10:10 p.m. EDT Thursday, completing its journey from the launch pad to the orbiting complex in less than/about six hours.
Image above: The Soyuz TMA-09M carrying three new Expedition 36 crew members approaches the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA TV / Screen capture: Orbiter.ch Aerospace.
Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Luca Parmitano launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:31 p.m. Tuesday (2:31 a.m. Wednesday, Baikonur time) to begin the accelerated four-orbit journey to the station.
Soyuz Completes Expedited Flight to Station
After the hatches open at 11:55 p.m., the new trio will join Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy of NASA and Commander Pavel Vinogradov and Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos who docked with the orbital complex May 28. All six crew members will then participate in a welcome ceremony with family members and mission officials gathered at the Russian Mission Control Center in Korolev near Moscow.
Live NASA TV coverage of the hatch opening begins at 11:30 p.m.
Watch NASA TV: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
Read more about Expedition 36: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition36/index.html
Images (mentioned), Video, Text, Credit: NASA / NASA TV / ROSCOSMOS TV / ROSCOSMOS.
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