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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-15M - November, 2014
« Reply #21 on: 09/29/2014 06:14 pm »
Anton Shkaplerov @AntonAstrey:

Adjustment of Pingvin load suit. Check of operability of strain sensors. One failed.

Sokol spacesuit leak check and ventilation check.

Final check of Sokol spacesuit on JSC RD & PE 'Zvezda'. Centering of my seatliner.

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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-15M - November, 2014
« Reply #23 on: 10/24/2014 02:37 pm »
Jacques :-)

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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-15M - November, 2014
« Reply #24 on: 10/25/2014 09:20 am »
Attached is ESA's Futura mission brochure

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Apparently due to scheduled maintenance at the "Gagarin's Start" (finally upgrading for the Soyuz-2 series?), our next crew for the ISS will depart from pad 31/6 instead.  ;)

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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-15M - November, 2014
« Reply #26 on: 10/30/2014 01:54 pm »
Apparently due to scheduled maintenance at the "Gagarin's Start" (finally upgrading for the Soyuz-2 series?), our next crew for the ISS will depart from pad 31/6 instead.  ;)

http://www.federalspace.ru/21068/
That was my question too since this upgrade period was also planned previously for 2012 and then 2013 before being bumped to 2014. anik would know best probably.

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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-15M - November, 2014
« Reply #27 on: 10/31/2014 06:53 am »

October 30, 2014

NASA Astronaut Terry Virts Available for Interviews before His Space Station Mission

NASA astronaut Terry Virts, who is making final preparations for his launch next month to the International Space Station, will be available for live satellite interviews from 6-7 a.m. EST Wednesday, Nov. 5.

Virts will participate live from the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, where he is completing his training. The interviews will be preceded at 5:30 a.m. by a video highlighting his mission training and previous spaceflight.

To schedule an interview time, reporters should contact Karen Svetaka at (281) 486-8684 no later than 3 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 4.

Virts was born in Baltimore and calls Columbia, Maryland, his hometown. He earned degrees from the U.S. Air Force Academy and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and as a colonel in the U.S. Air Force has accumulated more than 4,000 flight hours in more than 40 different aircraft. Virts was selected as an astronaut in 2000 and piloted space shuttle Endeavour during the STS-130 mission in February 2010. The 13-day mission delivered the Tranquility module and cupola to the space station.

Virts' crewmates are astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency and cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos). The three will launch to the station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft Nov. 23 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Once they arrive, they will join Expedition 42 Commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore of NASA and cosmonauts Elena Serova and Alexander Samoukutyaev of Roscosmos, who launched to the station in September.

The crew will continue supporting several hundred experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science currently underway and scheduled to take place aboard the orbiting laboratory. Virts, who is expected to conduct at least two spacewalks during his five-and-a-half-month mission, is scheduled to return to Earth in May 2015.

Media participating in the live shots must tune to NTV-3. Satellite tuning information is available at:

http://go.nasa.gov/1pOWUhR

For more information on NASA TV coverage, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

Virts' biography is available at:

http://go.nasa.gov/w1eH1s

Follow Virts via Twitter at:

https://twitter.com/AstroTerry

Follow Virts and all the space station crew members on Instagram:

http://instagram.com/iss

For information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station
Jacques :-)

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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-15M - November, 2014
« Reply #28 on: 10/31/2014 07:10 am »
Crew exams day 1 (30-10-2014)
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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-15M - November, 2014
« Reply #29 on: 10/31/2014 10:51 am »
Video of day 1 of the ISS-42/43 final exams


Info about the problems the cosmonauts had to solve are here (in Russian):
http://www.gctc.ru/main.php?id=2757

Photos can be found here:
http://www.gctc.ru/main.php?id=2755

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Apparently due to scheduled maintenance at the "Gagarin's Start" (finally upgrading for the Soyuz-2 series?), our next crew for the ISS will depart from pad 31/6 instead.  ;)

http://www.federalspace.ru/21068/
That was my question too since this upgrade period was also planned previously for 2012 and then 2013 before being bumped to 2014. anik would know best probably.

Apparently not - it turns out that the problem is that the roof of MIK-112 was found to be leaking (!) so they need to do repairs to the low bay in order not to repeat what happened to the high bay (and also at Michoud in 2005). The rocket has been transferred to MIK-40 for preparations.

http://www.militarynews.ru/story.asp?rid=1&nid=357148
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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-15M - November, 2014
« Reply #31 on: 11/06/2014 08:45 pm »
Expedition 42/43 - Crew News Conference at Star City, Russia
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9156

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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-15M - November, 2014
« Reply #32 on: 11/07/2014 01:51 pm »
Jacqmans previously made notice of the crews first day of final exames...

First day http://www.gctc.ru/main.php?id=2755

Second day http://www.gctc.ru/main.php?id=2758

Press-conference http://www.gctc.ru/main.php?id=2765


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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-15M - November, 2014
« Reply #33 on: 11/08/2014 09:47 am »
Jacques :-)

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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-15M - November, 2014
« Reply #34 on: 11/11/2014 11:35 am »
Soyuz TMA-15M prime crew arrived at Baikonur.

http://www.federalspace.ru/21103/

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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-15M - November, 2014
« Reply #35 on: 11/11/2014 01:20 pm »
Jacques :-)

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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-15M - November, 2014
« Reply #37 on: 11/11/2014 01:48 pm »
Jacques :-)

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Re: Soyuz-FG launch with Soyuz TMA-15M - November, 2014
« Reply #38 on: 11/12/2014 01:33 pm »

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