The memory cards containing the pictures/video are still inside the Soyuz descent module, which was due to be airlifted today from Kazakhstan to RSC Energia's plant in Moscow. Once there, the cards will be retrieved, and the images will be released.NASA have said that it will be next week at least before the images are released.
Quote from: Space Pete on 05/26/2011 11:30 pmThe memory cards containing the pictures/video are still inside the Soyuz descent module, which was due to be airlifted today from Kazakhstan to RSC Energia's plant in Moscow. Once there, the cards will be retrieved, and the images will be released.NASA have said that it will be next week at least before the images are released.Why does it take so long to just publish some pictures?
In short: NASA must wait for RSC Energia to transport the Soyuz to Moscow and unload it, which takes about one week.
where are the Soyuz Fly about pictures?
I doubt the Russians really care about photography, judging from the yawning chasm sitting where their published photo history ought to reside. They probably would have regarded the eagerness to obtain and copy the cards as treading on their toes - butt out, Amerikanskis! I'm still very surprised they agreed to it in the first place. Assuming the cards *are* found, they won't rush. Why do so when it just provides NASA positive publicity just as the Shuttle is winding up and Russia is regaining its monopoly on manned spaceflight - okay, apart from the Chinese, but they don't really count as far as ISS is concerned.
This post is highly disconnected with reality. It was the Russians who originally proposed the Soyuz photography of the STS-71 undocking in 1995. The Russians were highly enthusiastic about NASA's proposal for Soyuz photography of STS-133 and worked very hard to make it happen, but ultimately there were too many unknowns with the new Soyuz. And for the STS-134 Soyuz flyabout, it was a last minute conversation between Suffredini and Krasnov that got it turned back on.
The photos will come when they come, I'm only interested in Endeavour coming home safe to be honest. It's about priorities, and that's no contest.