Author Topic: LIVE: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-03M And Docking - Dec 21/23, 2011 (Read 177796 times)

woods170 · « **Reply #260 on:** 12/21/2011 05:41 pm »

Quote from: Jester on 12/21/2011 05:05 pm

Lighthouse in Noordwijk, in honor of Andre's launch
(notice the soyuz projected on it)

Nice touch! That is where ESTEC resides.

Paper Kosmonaut · « **Reply #261 on:** 12/21/2011 08:20 pm »

Quote from: Jester on 12/21/2011 05:04 pm

Oleg used his pen to demonstrate, keeping it simple

My kind of mission. No frills, just science and thrills.

pjdekker · « **Reply #262 on:** 12/22/2011 02:41 pm »

Since today there is a set of postcards and stamps available from Andre.

http://collectclub.postnl.nl/pages/detail/s1/10220000001491-2-21010000000080.aspx?trc=dp-cm-bnr211211-hpcm-adpanel-kuipers

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #263 on:** 12/23/2011 03:22 am »

Realigned the thread for docking coverage.

NTV docking coverage begins at 8:45am Central.

mtakala24 · « **Reply #264 on:** 12/23/2011 11:34 am »

~~Docking coverage has started.~~ nevermind, it was pre-recorded footage. I got confused by the wrong docking time advertised on the page 17 of this thread, here http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=25257.msg842171#msg842171

ChrisC · « **Reply #265 on:** 12/23/2011 12:43 pm »

I'm confused. I thought I saw it documented upside down and sideways that docking was supposed to be happening right now, Friday at 8:45am ET (13:45 GMT), not tomorrow as just stated on NTV. Did something change? It seems like they delayed it one day, but I see no mention here of it ...

EDIT: I now see a 15:23 GMT docking time stated in several sources. Still don't know why it changed. The commentary on NASA TV right now is a REPEAT of yesterday's daily ISS hour. Hence the confusing references to docking tomorrow. The NASA TV schedule does indeed show docking coverage starting at 9:45am ET, thanks Mapperuo.

Either way, I'll be glad to see it get docked, as we've just had another Soyuz launch failure ...