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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-10M - September 25, 2013
« Reply #20 on: 08/22/2013 10:00 pm »
Prime and back-up crew members portraits...
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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-10M - September 25, 2013
« Reply #21 on: 08/31/2013 06:55 am »
MEDIA ADVISORY M13-140

 
NASA Astronaut Mike Hopkins Available for Interviews before Space Mission

NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, scheduled to travel to the International Space Station in September, will be available for live satellite interviews from 7-8 a.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 9.

Hopkins will answer questions from news media representatives via satellite from the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, where he is making final preparations for a Sept. 25 launch. Before the interviews, NASA Television will air footage of Hopkins' mission training, beginning at 6:30 a.m.

Reporters who would like to participate in the interviews should contact Seth Marcantel at [email protected] or 281-792-7515 no later than 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6.

Selected for the astronaut corps in 2009, Hopkins holds bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., respectively. He is a colonel in the U.S. Air Force.

An advocate of lifelong fitness, Hopkins encourages the public to follow his mission preparations through the "Train Like an Astronaut" program. He shares his workouts and fitness demonstrations through social media and plans to continue doing this throughout his spaceflight.

Hopkins will launch aboard a Soyuz spacecraft at 4:58 p.m. Sept. 25 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. He will travel to the space station with crewmates Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos).

When the Soyuz arrives at the orbiting outpost, the crew will join Expedition 37 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos, Karen Nyberg of NASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency.

The crew members will assist in several hundred experiments that cross the fields of biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science during their mission, which will last nearly six months. Hopkins, Kotov and Ryazanskiy are scheduled to return to Earth in March 2014.

For Hopkins' complete biography, visit:

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/hopkins-ms.html

Follow Hopkins and other NASA astronauts via Twitter at:

@AstroILLINI

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@NASA_Astronauts

For more information about Expeditions 37 and 38, visit:

http://go.nasa.gov/15jN1Ze

For more information about the "Train Like an Astronaut" program, visit:

http://www.Facebook.com/TrainAstronaut

For more information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station
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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-10M - September 25, 2013
« Reply #22 on: 09/01/2013 09:15 am »
Mike Hopkins ‏@AstroIllini

Spent all day yesterday in Russian segment of ISS prepping for our exam next week. Sergey is taking pics of earth pic.twitter.com/G2YeRq4Tlt

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Reviewed all the Russian medical kits on board station as well as the Soyuz. Hopefully we won't need to use them. pic.twitter.com/2vHetzFjE7

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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-10M - September 25, 2013
« Reply #23 on: 09/04/2013 06:23 am »
The ISS-37/38 prime and back-up crew are in the midst of their final exams.
The back-up crew had their 'fast-track' and 'two-day' ISS approach & docking exams on Sep 2 and 3, respectively, and the prime crew had their ISS exam on Sep 3.
Exams will continue on Sep and 4.
http://www.gctc.ru/main.php?id=2127

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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-10M - September 25, 2013
« Reply #24 on: 09/05/2013 03:04 am »
Expedition 37/38 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency, NASA Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins and their backups, Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos and Steve Swanson of NASA, conducted final Soyuz spacecraft and ISS Russian Segment qualification training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, on Sept. 3 and 4. The crew members are scheduled to fly to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sept. 13 to prepare for a Sept. 26 liftoff, Kazakh time, of Kotov, Ryazanskiy and Hopkins.


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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-10M - September 25, 2013
« Reply #25 on: 09/07/2013 10:25 am »
Expedition 37/38 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins and their backups, Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos and Steve Swanson of NASA participated in traditional ceremonies at Red Square in Moscow, laying flowers at the Kremlin Wall and touring the Kremlin as they paid tribute to iconic Russian space heroes. Kotov, Hopkins and Ryazanskiy are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on Sept. 26, Kazakh time.


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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-10M - September 25, 2013
« Reply #26 on: 09/07/2013 10:25 am »
Expedition 37/38 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins and their backups, Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos and Steve Swanson of NASA, fielded questions from the news media at their training base at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, outside Moscow on Sept. 6 as part of traditional pre-launch activities before their departure Sept. 13 for their launch site in Kazakhstan. Kotov, Hopkins and Ryazanskiy are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on Sept. 26, Kazakh time.



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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-10M - September 25, 2013
« Reply #27 on: 09/08/2013 04:15 pm »
« Last Edit: 09/08/2013 04:15 pm by jacqmans »
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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-10M - September 25, 2013
« Reply #28 on: 09/08/2013 04:16 pm »
« Last Edit: 09/08/2013 04:17 pm by jacqmans »
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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-10M - September 25, 2013
« Reply #29 on: 09/08/2013 04:18 pm »
Mike Hopkins ‏@AstroIllini

That's it!  End of training exams though the biggest test is yet to come. Hopefully it will go as well. pic.twitter.com/ULseRZxgSg

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Soyuz TMA-10M crew reporting in for the 1st day of 2 Soyuz exams. pic.twitter.com/EKVgSQ7fbC

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Start of our final ISS Russian segment exam with questions from press.  We passed! pic.twitter.com/L3Zis7eQYv



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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-10M - September 25, 2013
« Reply #30 on: 09/13/2013 11:33 am »

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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-10M - September 25, 2013
« Reply #31 on: 09/13/2013 11:34 am »
Soyuz TMA-10M prime and back-up crews arrive at Baikonur.

http://www.federalspace.ru/19802/

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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-10M - September 25, 2013
« Reply #32 on: 09/13/2013 01:35 pm »
Soyuz TMA-10M primary and backup crews arrived to the Baikonur launch site. Photo.
http://www.energia.ru/en/iss/iss37/photo_09-13.html

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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-10M - September 25, 2013
« Reply #33 on: 09/13/2013 03:04 pm »
Mike Hopkins ‏@AstroIllini

Just arrived in Baikonur. Hard to describe how excited I feel. Still 12 days to launch, but getting soooo close! pic.twitter.com/PzRLsGJ4T2

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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-10M - September 25, 2013
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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-10M - September 25, 2013
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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-10M - September 25, 2013
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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-10M - September 25, 2013
« Reply #37 on: 09/15/2013 10:03 am »
Soyuz TMA-10M crews initiated a final training phase

The prime and backup crews for the ISS-37/38 initiated a final training phase in the processing facility.

Oleg Kotov (Roscosmos, Russia), Sergei Ryazanskiy (Roscosmos, Russia), Michael Hopkins (NASA, USA), Aleksandr Skvortsov (Roscosmos, Russia), Oleg Artemyev (Roscosmos, Russia) and Steven Swanson (NASA, USA) had training sessions onboard the spacecraft, acquainted with the onboard documentation and the content of cargoes launched and also made a fitting of the Sokol-KB space suits and individual liners.

http://www.energia.ru/en/iss/iss37/photo_09-14.html
 

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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-10M - September 25, 2013
« Reply #38 on: 09/15/2013 12:43 pm »
Traditional flag raising ceremony

http://www.federalspace.ru/19808/ (On Russian)

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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-10M - September 25, 2013
« Reply #39 on: 09/15/2013 02:20 pm »
MEDIA ADVISORY M13-142

LIVE: NASA TV Airs September Space Station Crew Launch


NASA Television will provide extensive coverage live from Kazakhstan of the Sept. 25 launch of three crew members of Expedition 37-38, as they begin their journey to the International Space Station.

Michael Hopkins of NASA and Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will depart from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 4:58 p.m. EDT (2:58 a.m. Kazakh time Sept. 26) aboard a Soyuz spacecraft headed for the space station. NASA Television coverage will begin at 4 p.m. and will include video of pre-launch activities leading up to spacecraft boarding.

Hopkins and Ryazanskiy are flight engineers, and Kotov commands the Soyuz spacecraft, which will rendezvous with the space station and dock after four orbits of Earth. Docking to the Poisk module on the Russian segment of the station will take place at 10:47 p.m. NASA TV coverage of docking will begin at 10 p.m.

At about 12:25 a.m. Sept. 26, hatches between the Soyuz and the space station will open. Expedition 37 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos, as well as Flight Engineers Karen Nyberg of NASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency will greet Hopkins, Kotov and Ryazanskiy. Hatch-opening coverage begins on NASA TV at midnight.

Hopkins, Kotov and Ryazanskiy will remain aboard the station until mid-March. Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano, who have been aboard the orbiting laboratory since late May, will return to Earth Nov. 11, leaving Kotov as commander of Expedition 38.

For the full schedule of prelaunch and launch coverage, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/stationnews

For information on the International Space Station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

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

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
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