“The following scheme is planned for now: two NASA astronauts will remain on the ISS for nine months instead of the usual six. So, Nick Hague starts his mission on March 14 [2019] on the Soyuz MS-12 and returns to Earth on 18 December on the Soyuz MS-13, while Andrew Morgan will travel to the orbital station on Soyuz MS-13 on 6 July and will return on Soyuz MS-15 in April 2020", the source said.
https://sputniknews.com/science/201902121072328776-usa-russia-iss-soyuz-missions-extension/Quote“The following scheme is planned for now: two NASA astronauts will remain on the ISS for nine months instead of the usual six. So, Nick Hague starts his mission on March 14 [2019] on the Soyuz MS-12 and returns to Earth on 18 December on the Soyuz MS-13, while Andrew Morgan will travel to the orbital station on Soyuz MS-13 on 6 July and will return on Soyuz MS-15 in April 2020", the source said.
Wouldnt this mean that there will be no UAE astronaut flight in 2019, and wasn't that the whole point of Hague flying an extra long mission in the first place?, to give a seat to an astronaut from the MBRSC?.
Al-Mansuri will return in Soyuz MS-12, Hague in MS-13 and Morgan in MS-15
Quote from: Olaf on 02/12/2019 10:38 amAl-Mansuri will return in Soyuz MS-12, Hague in MS-13 and Morgan in MS-15Yes. And two cosmonauts (Russian and Arabian) aboard Soyuz MS-15 at launch. This plan is in discussion.By the way: was it confirmed by UAE that Al-Mansuri will fly?
And no NASA-astronaut on MS-15?
Since Hague will launch and land on two different Soyuz, with two different Soyuz CDRs, is it fair to assume that he will occupy the FE-2 seat, both up and down?Does this mean Koch will fly FE-1, both up and down, on Soyuz MS-12?
The next United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, flying with two solid rocket boosters, will be the maiden flight of Boeing's Starliner space capsule on an uncrewed demonstration mission to the International Space Station, on late April at the earliest, in the early morning or middle of the night EDT.
The launch of the Progress MS-10 engine docked to the ISS Zvezda module is scheduled for February 26 at 05.21 Moscow time They will work 445 seconds, as a result of which the average height of the station’s orbit will increase by 1.6 kilometers, ”the agency’s source said.
"Ignition the Progress MS-10 engine, docked to the ISS Zvezda module, is scheduled for February 26 at 05.21 Moscow time. They will work 445 seconds, as a result of which the station’s orbital altitude will increase by 1.6 kilometers,” the source said agencies.
After a six-hour journey in orbit, they will arrive at the station and dock their spacecraft to the Rassvet module on the Earth-facing port of the Russian segment of the complex.
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-astronauts-available-for-interviews-before-space-station-mission-0QuoteAfter a six-hour journey in orbit, they will arrive at the station and dock their spacecraft to the Rassvet module on the Earth-facing port of the Russian segment of the complex.That means, no relocation of Soyuz MS-11 is necessary.
Quote from: Olaf on 02/13/2019 06:36 pmhttps://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-astronauts-available-for-interviews-before-space-station-mission-0QuoteAfter a six-hour journey in orbit, they will arrive at the station and dock their spacecraft to the Rassvet module on the Earth-facing port of the Russian segment of the complex.That means, no relocation of Soyuz MS-11 is necessary.There are no relocations this year at all.
That doesn't look possible based on the current schedule
Since the launch of the Nauka module was postponed until mid-2020, then at least until April 2020 there is no point in increasing the Russian crew of the ISS from two to three astronauts," the agency’s source said.
