LIVE: Soyuz TMA-05M launch and docking - July 15 and 17, 2012

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[anik]

First day of exams: both crews - 5.0 (excellent).

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MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-117

NASA ASTRONAUT AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS BEFORE STATION FLIGHT

HOUSTON -- NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, making final preparations
for a July launch to the International Space Station, will be
available for live satellite interviews from 6 to 7 a.m. CDT Tuesday,
June 26. The interviews will originate from Moscow and will be
preceded at 5:30 a.m. by a feed of video documenting Williams'
mission training.

Williams, a record-setting astronaut who lived and worked aboard the
space station for six months in 2006, will be a flight engineer on
the station's Expedition 32 crew. She will become commander of
Expedition 33. Williams is scheduled to launch at 9:40 p.m. CDT July
14 (8:40 a.m. July 15 Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan with Flight Engineers Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian
Federal Space Agency and Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency.

Williams is a native of Needham, Mass., and a 1987 graduate of the
U.S. Naval Academy. After earning her commission, Williams served in
various roles as a Navy officer before being selected as an astronaut
candidate by NASA in 1998. She received a master's degree from the
Florida Institute of Technology in 1995.

Williams and her colleagues will be aboard the station during an
exceptionally busy period that includes two spacewalks, the arrival
of Japanese, U.S. commercial and Russian resupply vehicles, and an
increasingly faster pace of scientific research.

To arrange an interview, news media representatives must contact Karen
Svetaka at 281-483-8684 or karen.a.svetaka@nasa.gov by 2 p.m. Monday,
June 25.

The NASA Live Interview Media Service (LIMS) satellite will be used
for the interviews. LIMS satellite parameters will be provided by
NASA to confirmed clients closer to the event.

For NASA Television streaming video, downlink and scheduling
information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For Williams' complete biography, visit:

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/williams-s.html

For more information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

[anik]

Second day of exams: both crews - 5.0 (excellent).

[Lewis007]

The Soyuz TMA-5M (ISS-32) prime and back-up crews were confirmed by an Interagency Commission at the Gagarin TsPK center in Star City.
The meeting was attended by representatives of the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), the Cosmonaut Training Center, RSC Energia, the Federal Medical-Biological Agency, Khrunichev, the Institute of Biomedical Problems, NASA, ESA, JAXA, and the crewmembers.

Following the meeting of the Interagency Committee, the crews participated in a press conference, after which they visited the Star City Museum Center and the office of Yuri Gagarin, where they signed the commemorative book. They also met Roscosmos head V.A. Popovkin during the traditional ‘tea party.’

Sources (all in Russian):
http://www.gctc.ru/main.php?id=1499
http://www.gctc.ru/main.php?id=1503
http://www.gctc.ru/main.php?id=1501
http://www.roscosmos.ru/main.php?id=2&nid=19240

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[STS109]

I would like to invite all to a special TMA-05M launch viewing event in Massachusetts on July 14th  from 9-11pm at MA Maritime Academy.

Come to to this free event to see  and hear from a current astronaut about what it is like to train, launch and work on the ISS and then hear a running commentary as Suni, Aki and Yuri launch via NASA TV. Other guest will talk about what families and friends do before and during launch while overseas.
This event is in Suni hometown area and we hope to to see lots of family and friends there.

My own non profit is running this so see our web site for more info.

http://www.onegiantleapinc.org/Events.html

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Here are individual portraits of prime crew...It's interesting exp 33 patch on Aki Hoshide's Sokol suit!

[jacqmans]

The Soyuz TMA05M patch design depicts the spacecraft as it enters orbit, lit up by the rising sun. In design, colour and font, the patch is influenced by the Art Deco style.

The vertical blue and black bands in the background refer to the similar design of the flag of the Russian Air Force, represented on this mission by Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko.

The three stars symbolize the three crewmembers. The design of the star is that of a monument on the grounds of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center just outside Moscow.

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Soyuz TMA-05M prime and back-up crews arrive at Baikonour.

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July 2, 2012.
Soyuz TMA-05M crews arrived to the Baikonur launch site

Primary (MALENCHENKO Yuri Ivanovich (Roscosmos, Russia), Sunita Lyn WILLIAMS (NASA, USA) and Akihiko HOSHIDE (JAXA, Japan)) and backup (ROMANENKO Roman Yurievich (Roscosmos, Russia), Christopher Austin HADFIELD (CSA, Canada) and Thomas Henry MARSHBURN (NASA, USA)) crews of the Soyuz TMA-05M transportation spacecraft arrived to the Baikonur launch site. At the airport they were met by members of the State Commission and Technical Management.

Commanders of the crews reported on their readiness for pre-flight training and Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft acceptance.

http://www.energia.ru/en/iss/iss32/photo_07-02.html