Author Topic: Soyuz-2.1a - Soyuz MS-22 - 21 September 2022 (13:54 UTC) (Read 27495 times)

Rondaz · « **Reply #160 on:** 09/21/2022 09:10 pm »

New Crew Enters Station and Begins Six-Month Mission

Mark Garcia Posted on September 21, 2022

The hatches between the International Space Station and the newly arrived Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft officially opened at 3:34 p.m. EDT. The arrival of three new crew members to the existing seven people already aboard for Expedition 67 temporarily increases the station’s population to 10.

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin joined Expedition 67 Commander Oleg Artemyev, cosmonauts Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov of Roscosmos, as well as NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Jessica Watkins, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. Rubio, Prokopyev, and Petelin will spend six months aboard the orbital laboratory.

Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev, and Sergey Korsakov will return to Earth Sept. 29 on the Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft, which is currently docked at the space station, for a parachute-assisted landing on the Kazakh steppe.

Expedition 67 astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Jessica Watkins of NASA and astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA (European Space Agency) have been aboard since arriving April 27, 2022, on the SpaceX Dragon Freedom. Freedom and its crew are currently planned to return early-to-mid October.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2022/09/21/new-crew-enters-station-and-begins-six-month-mission/

Rondaz · « **Reply #161 on:** 09/21/2022 09:19 pm »

Docking!

The flight to the International Space Station followed a two-orbit scheme. The docking was performed automatically. Now we are waiting for Sergey, Dima and Frank on board. The red carpet has already been laid..

https://twitter.com/SergKorsakov/status/1572638878745477120

Rondaz · « **Reply #162 on:** 09/22/2022 12:14 am »

CelesTrak has GP data for 2 objects from the launch (2022-116) of SOYUZ-MS 22 atop a Soyuz-2.1a rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome on Sep 21 at 1354 UTC:

https://twitter.com/TSKelso/status/1572705696017178624