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Re: LIVE: Soyuz TMA-16M Updates
« Reply #40 on: 03/24/2015 07:52 pm »
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Re: LIVE: Soyuz TMA-16M Updates
« Reply #41 on: 03/25/2015 12:01 am »
Anybody knows location of NOTAM for first stage and fairing drop zone?

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Re: LIVE: Soyuz TMA-16M Updates
« Reply #42 on: 03/25/2015 06:23 pm »
Expedition 43 - Crew Activities in Baikonur, Kazakhstan and Soyuz TMA-16M Vehicle Mating Operations
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9335

Expedition 43 - Soyuz TMA-16M Spacecraft Rollout to the Launch Pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9337

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Re: LIVE: Soyuz TMA-16M Updates
« Reply #43 on: 03/25/2015 07:15 pm »
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Re: LIVE: Soyuz TMA-16M Updates
« Reply #44 on: 03/25/2015 07:16 pm »
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Re: LIVE: Soyuz TMA-16M Updates
« Reply #45 on: 03/25/2015 07:22 pm »
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Re: LIVE: Soyuz TMA-16M Updates
« Reply #46 on: 03/25/2015 07:23 pm »
LV Soyuz rollout to the launch pad

March 25, 2015

At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-16M transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.

Soyuz launch vehicle was rolled out from the integration building to the launch pad. Soyuz launch vehicle with Soyuz TMA-16M transport vehicle is installed on the launch pad. L-2 days activities have been started.

http://www.energia.ru/en/iss/iss43/photo_03-25.html
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Re: LIVE: Soyuz TMA-16M Updates
« Reply #47 on: 03/26/2015 12:01 pm »
Expedition 43 - NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly Space Shuttle and ISS missions and associated training
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9338

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Re: LIVE: Soyuz TMA-16M Updates
« Reply #48 on: 03/26/2015 08:02 pm »
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Re: LIVE: Soyuz TMA-16M Updates
« Reply #49 on: 03/26/2015 08:04 pm »
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Re: LIVE: Soyuz TMA-16M Updates
« Reply #50 on: 03/26/2015 08:06 pm »
The State Commission meeting

March 26, 2015

The State Commission held its meeting at Baikonur launch site where the primary and backup crews for Soyuz TMA-16M were approved and the readiness of the space launcher system was confirmed.

Prime crew: Gennady Ivanovich Padalka (Roscosmos, Russia), Soyuz TMA-16M Commander; Mikhail Borisovich Kornienko (Roscosmos, Russia), Soyuz TMA-16M Flight Engineer-1; Scott Joseph Kelly (NASA, USA), Soyuz TMA-16M Flight Engineer-2.

Backup crew: Alexey Nikolaevich Ovchinin (Roscosmos, Russia), Soyuz TMA-16M Commander; Sergey Alexandrovich Volkov (Roscosmos, Russia), Soyuz TMA-16M Flight Engineer-1; Jeffry Nels Williams (NASA, USA), Soyuz TMA-16M Flight Engineer-2.

The members of the primary and backup crews reported their readiness for the mission.

The launch of the Soyuz-FG integrated launch vehicle with the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft to the ISS Orbital Complex is planned for March 27, 2015 at 10:42 p.m. Moscow time.

http://www.energia.ru/en/iss/iss43/photo_03-26.html
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Re: LIVE: Soyuz TMA-16M Updates
« Reply #51 on: 03/26/2015 08:22 pm »

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Re: LIVE: Soyuz TMA-16M Updates
« Reply #52 on: 03/27/2015 06:35 am »
Moved for live coverage! Best wishes to Scott, Mikhail and Gennady for their trip!  :)
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Re: LIVE: Soyuz TMA-16M Updates
« Reply #53 on: 03/27/2015 01:41 pm »
Outline article:

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/03/soyuz-tma-16m-historic-one-year-expedition/

Obviously more on the one year mission during the mission.
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Re: LIVE: Soyuz TMA-16M Updates
« Reply #54 on: 03/27/2015 01:44 pm »
From Scott's Facebook page  https://www.facebook.com/pages/NASA-Astronaut-Scott-Kelly/131376260352637?fref=nf

Just awoke from pre-launch nap. Last time in bed for a year. Tomorrow it will be like this on the International Space Station http://bit.ly/19p4uc3
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Re: LIVE: Soyuz TMA-16M Updates
« Reply #55 on: 03/27/2015 04:03 pm »
Webcast from TsENKI...

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Re: LIVE: Soyuz TMA-16M Updates
« Reply #56 on: 03/27/2015 04:09 pm »
Cosmonauts arriving at the pad...

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Re: LIVE: Soyuz TMA-16M Updates
« Reply #57 on: 03/27/2015 04:13 pm »

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Re: LIVE: Soyuz TMA-16M Updates
« Reply #58 on: 03/27/2015 04:22 pm »
This will be the longest mission ever for a US Astronaut and the longest an astronaut has ever spent continuously on the ISS (the longer ones were all on Mir).

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Re: LIVE: Soyuz TMA-16M Updates
« Reply #59 on: 03/27/2015 04:51 pm »
Always surprises me the number of people just milling about at the base of the rocket.
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