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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #120 on: 06/07/2011 06:40 pm »
Just sent the link as a suggestion for 'Best of the Web', on a national newspaper's website. Perhaps another way to make it go viral?

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #121 on: 06/07/2011 06:42 pm »
Buzzed Sky News. BBC is a minefield, so maybe someone can alert Mr Amos?

I'm sure MSNBC are all over it.

I've already Tweeted Mr. Amos. :)

He used a wide-angle EVA shot in a BBC article last week.
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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #122 on: 06/07/2011 06:42 pm »
They've written a presser! Good good!

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UNIQUE 'PORTRAIT' OF SHUTTLE AND INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION RELEASED

WASHINGTON -- Newly-released portraits show the International Space
Station together with the space shuttle, the vehicle that helped
build the complex during the last decade. The pictures are the first
taken of a shuttle docked to the station from the perspective of a
Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

On May 23, the Soyuz was carrying Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev,
NASA astronaut Cady Coleman and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo
Nespoli back to Earth. Once their vehicle was about 600 feet from the
station, Mission Control Moscow, outside the Russian capital,
commanded the orbiting laboratory to rotate 130 degrees. This move
allowed Nespoli to capture digital photographs and high definition
video of shuttle Endeavour docked to the station.

The Soyuz landed in Kazakhstan and was taken to Moscow for routine
post-landing analysis. NASA and the Russian space agency, Roscosmos,
then processed the imagery as part of the standard disposition of
spacecraft cargo.

Additional images and high definition video are being processed and
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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #124 on: 06/07/2011 06:45 pm »
Thank you Paolo!!!!!  :)

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #125 on: 06/07/2011 06:47 pm »
Thank you Paolo!!!!!  :)

Love them

Paolo Nespoli is my hero!!

Forza Italia!!!


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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #126 on: 06/07/2011 06:50 pm »
And contacted Wired, let's see what happens! :D

(PS - Nine photos on that NASA link now, so they're still busy.)
« Last Edit: 06/07/2011 06:52 pm by Skylab »

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #127 on: 06/07/2011 06:52 pm »
Im finding some of the pictures from two NASA sources
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/multimedia/e27depart.html
and
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-27/ndxpage59.html

Some of the images on the first link are also on the second link as well, but they are lower file-size on the first link.

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #128 on: 06/07/2011 07:01 pm »
What a day! We get the Soyuz flyabout pictures the same day as a Soyuz launch!!

Soyuz TMA-02M launches astronaut Mike Fossum to the space station at 4:12p ET. NASA TV coverage starts at 3:30p: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

:-)

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NASA astronaut Mike Fossum, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa -- are set for launch to the ISS from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in their Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft at 4:12 p.m. EDT (2:12 a.m. Wednesday, Baikonur time).

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #129 on: 06/07/2011 07:19 pm »
These are just as good as I had hoped they would be!  What once seemed science fiction is now science fact!!!!!
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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #130 on: 06/07/2011 07:21 pm »
I'm already verry happy with these photo's! Now i hope to get one with Endeavour's nose in the frame.
Booster ignition and lift off!!

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #131 on: 06/07/2011 07:23 pm »
How many published pictures will there be - in total?

Any idea?

 ???

I love the pictures of the "bent" Space Station.
I hope there will be many more.
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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #132 on: 06/07/2011 07:38 pm »
This is the bomb!!
« Last Edit: 06/07/2011 07:38 pm by Davejfb »
Booster ignition and lift off!!

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #135 on: 06/07/2011 07:45 pm »
I love this one:

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/557331main_iss027e036710_full.jpg

I have to say that I love that one, too. Best view of Endeavour, in my opinion.
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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #136 on: 06/07/2011 08:15 pm »
I tried to make a rough edit to fix the exposure on this one, not sure how it turned out, you guys let me know.  :)

EDIT:  Wasn't sure on the cooler blue or the warmer white, I like the image either way, but...  :P
« Last Edit: 06/07/2011 08:23 pm by Ford Mustang »

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #137 on: 06/07/2011 08:19 pm »
Really nice photos!

A question: Did they ever get in front of the orbiter while doing the flyabout? So far the only ones are behind and beside Endeavour.

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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #138 on: 06/07/2011 08:22 pm »
Really nice photos!

A question: Did they ever get in front of the orbiter while doing the flyabout? So far the only ones are behind and beside Endeavour.

The Soyuz was stationkeeping on the velocity vector throughout the photos. The Soyuz did not move; the shuttle-ISS stack rotated.
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Re: The Soyuz "Flyabout" Picture Update Thread
« Reply #139 on: 06/07/2011 08:27 pm »
110 photos going into L2 we hear!
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