Author Topic: Flight crew assignments (Read 1807544 times)

ZachS09 · « **Reply #3800 on:** 05/23/2023 06:53 pm »

https://twitter.com/nasaspaceops/status/1661069616100126720

marcdrnl · « **Reply #3801 on:** 05/29/2023 02:46 pm »

Big move on the crew assigned to Soyuz MS-24 to MS-28 :

MS-24 launching : Kononenko / Chub / O'Hara - landing : Novitsky / Belarusian / O'Hara
MS-25 launching : Novitsky / Belarusian / T.C Dyson - landing : Kononenko / Chub / T.C Dyson
MS-26 launching : Ovchinin / Platonov / Gorbunov or NASA - landing : Ovchinin / Platonov / Gorbunov or NASA
MS-27 launching : Ryzhikov / Mikayev / Peskov or NASA - landing : Ryzhikov / Mikayev / Peskov or NASA
MS-28 launching : Kud-Sverchkov / Vagner / Zubritsky or NASA - landing : Kud-Sverchkov / Vagner / Zubritsky or NASA

source : GCTC telegram and https://www.gctc.ru/main.php?id=155

hektor · « **Reply #3802 on:** 05/29/2023 06:17 pm »

So the female Tunisian cosmonaut project is off the table?

John_Marshall · « **Reply #3803 on:** 05/31/2023 04:11 pm »

Quote from: hektor on 05/29/2023 06:17 pm

So the female Tunisian cosmonaut project is off the table?

It's also possible that this is a provisional assignment until someone is named.

Tomness · « **Reply #3804 on:** 06/01/2023 04:47 pm »

Quote from: hektor on 05/29/2023 06:17 pm

So the female Tunisian cosmonaut project is off the table?

No Bucks, No Buck Rogers. Kremlin got to pay back their IOUs. Ergo Belarus getting a Soyuez Ride. Worth 80 million a pop.

Ben E · « **Reply #3805 on:** 06/02/2023 06:45 am »

Am I right in thinking this will produce a situation with only 2 Russians on the ISS in the late summer of 2024?

Kononenko and Chub are flying a year from Sept 2023-Sept 2024.
Grebyonkin flies on Crew-8 from Feb-Aug 2024.
No Russian (?) on Starliner-1, so from Aug 2024 onwards (assuming there's a U.S. astronaut on the Sept 2024 Soyuz), there will be 5 USOS and 2 ROS.

Unless of course the Russians have changed their position and are happy for a cosmonaut to be on Starliner-1?
Or perhaps fly Ovchinin, Platonov and Gobunov on the Sept 2024 Soyuz and hold Pettit for the Mar 2025 Soyuz?

Zed_Noir · « **Reply #3806 on:** 06/02/2023 09:07 am »

Quote from: Ben E on 06/02/2023 06:45 am

Am I right in thinking this will produce a situation with only 2 Russians on the ISS in the late summer of 2024?

Kononenko and Chub are flying a year from Sept 2023-Sept 2024.
Grebyonkin flies on Crew-8 from Feb-Aug 2024.
No Russian (?) on Starliner-1, so from Aug 2024 onwards (assuming there's a U.S. astronaut on the Sept 2024 Soyuz), there will be 5 USOS and 2 ROS.

Unless of course the Russians have changed their position and are happy for a cosmonaut to be on Starliner-1?
Or perhaps fly Ovchinin, Platonov and Gobunov on the Sept 2024 Soyuz and hold Pettit for the Mar 2025 Soyuz?

You are presuming Starliner-1 will fly in around August 2024. The Russians are better off planning for their ISS crew rotation, that NASA Crew-9 will be more likely flown on a Crew Dragon with a Russian aboard.

John_Marshall · « **Reply #3807 on:** 06/02/2023 03:34 pm »

Quote from: Ben E on 06/02/2023 06:45 am

Am I right in thinking this will produce a situation with only 2 Russians on the ISS in the late summer of 2024?

If the Tunisian flight goes ahead and PCM-1 flies in August, then yes, you are correct, because it would have to be Tracy Caldwell-Dyson whose flight was extended (otherwise, someone would fly for a year and a half). If not, then they could launch a three-Russian Soyuz.

eric z · « **Reply #3808 on:** 06/02/2023 04:01 pm »

Please excuse if not the right place to bring this up. Should not we be using the now-limited lifetime of ISS to keep pushing mission durations for at least a couple crew members at a time? What is wrong with an 18-month mission? Or 2 years , building towards 3 years? I thought one of the prime directives of station was to push these boundaries.? We could also be using our assets to get as many Artemis Acccords representative astronauts into space as possible, before the End.
At his seniority level get Don back up there ASAP.

I think we need to get real about the odds we don't have any station by 2030, and maybe not a moon landing either. The public has a short attention span!

Tomness · « **Reply #3809 on:** 06/03/2023 04:46 pm »

Quote from: eric z on 06/02/2023 04:01 pm

Please excuse if not the right place to bring this up. Should not we be using the now-limited lifetime of ISS to keep pushing mission durations for at least a couple crew members at a time? What is wrong with an 18-month mission? Or 2 years , building towards 3 years? I thought one of the prime directives of station was to push these boundaries.? We could also be using our assets to get as many Artemis Acccords representative astronauts into space as possible, before the End.
At his seniority level get Don back up there ASAP.
I think we need to get real about the odds we don't have any station by 2030, and maybe not a moon landing either. The public has a short attention span!

Apparently Radiation Hard Limits start creeping up on senior astronauts and cosmonauts that they have go in management positions, retire or transition to commercial company and hope to fly again like Axiom

NasaFan95 · « **Reply #3810 on:** 06/05/2023 12:02 pm »

So does that mean kononenko is gonna contour his command after expedition 70 or will he assign it to barrart or Caldwell. I’m not trying to speculate I just wondered cuz of his extended stay.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #3811 on:** 06/05/2023 02:00 pm »

Please use this thread for general comments about assignments.

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=59008.0

Ben E · « **Reply #3812 on:** 06/13/2023 07:50 am »

https://www.gctc.ru/main.php?id=155

Have I misread this, or does this state that the ISS command for Exp 70, 71, 72 and 73 will all be Russians?

Kononenko is listed as Expedition CDR (CE) for (end of) Exp 70 and 71 (up to Sept 2024)
Ovchinin is CDR for Exp 72 (up to Mar 2025)
Ryzhikov is CDR for Exp 73 (up to Sept 2025)

I appreciate that things change with crewing patterns and so forth, but this seems rather specific and from GCTC too.

John_Marshall · « **Reply #3813 on:** 06/13/2023 03:58 pm »

Quote from: Ben E on 06/13/2023 07:50 am

https://www.gctc.ru/main.php?id=155

Have I misread this, or does this state that the ISS command for Exp 70, 71, 72 and 73 will all be Russians?

I would nuance it. The way I read it, there will be Russian commanders of ISS during Expeditions 70, 71, 72, and 73, but not all of the ISS commanders for those expeditions will be Russians. Kononenko, Ovchinin, and Ryzhikov are all listed as ISS flight engineers and also as commanders. This would match well with Andreas Mogensen, possibly someone from Crew-8, and probably Mike Fincke (assuming PCM-1 flies before Crew-9) also getting to command.

Rian · « **Reply #3814 on:** 06/14/2023 01:10 am »

Haven't seen this posted yet but selection of two cosmonauts for ROSS station to be selected late this year/next year.

https://tass.com/russia/1629311

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MOSCOW, June 8. /TASS/. The inaugural selection of cosmonauts for space flights to the future Russian Orbital Station (ROS) is planned for 2023-2024, the press office of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center reported on Thursday.

"First targeted selection of cosmonauts for flights to the ROS is planned for 2023-2024," the press service announced.

The training center added that active cosmonauts from the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos would also participate in the flights to Russia’s future orbital outpost.

In April 2021, then-Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov said that the condition of the International Space Station left much to be desired and Russia might focus on creating its own orbital outpost. Work on the future orbital station’s conceptual design is currently underway.

Deputy Prime Minister, Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov said in October last year that Russia had already determined the preliminary cost of its future orbital station.

Deputy Chief Designer of the Energia Space Rocket Corporation (part of the State Space Corporation Roscosmos), ROS Chief Designer Vladimir Kozhevnikov told TASS in February that Russia would launch the first research/energy module at the end of 2027 and the nodal, gateway, basic and special-purpose modules in 2028-2030.

John_Marshall · « **Reply #3815 on:** 06/15/2023 12:09 am »

Shouldn't the previous two posts go in the new general flight crew assignments thread?

hektor · « **Reply #3816 on:** 06/15/2023 10:36 am »

N° 28–2023: ESA proposes Marcus Wandt from Sweden to fly on a future Axiom space mission

ddspaceman · « **Reply #3817 on:** 06/15/2023 03:17 pm »

https://twitter.com/esaspaceflight/status/1669285229234667522

hektor · « **Reply #3818 on:** 06/16/2023 10:13 am »

https://twitter.com/astro_marcus/status/1669584803178373120?s=20

Garrett · « **Reply #3819 on:** 06/16/2023 11:15 am »

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Media representatives are invited to a press event on Friday 16 June at 16:00 CEST in Stockholm with Marcus Wandt, member of the ESA astronaut reserve, and learn more about a future spaceflight with Axiom Space.

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Press Conference details
Time: 16:00 (doors open at 15:30)

Venue: Rödbodgatan 6, Stockholm or via Zoom

ESA Web TV offers a livestreaming of the complete event (from 16:00): www.esa.int/ESA_Web_TV

Participants

- David Parker, ESA Director of Human and Robotic Exploration

- Mats Persson, Swedish Minister for Education

- Anna Rathsman, Director General of Swedish National Space Agency

- Marcus Wandt, ESA Project Astronaut

https://www.esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Releases/ESA_proposes_Marcus_Wandt_from_Sweden_to_fly_on_a_future_Axiom_space_mission