LIVE: STS-124 Flight Day 3 - RPM/Docking

[finduz]

FD3  Highlights playing now.

Awsome footage from the docking and hatch opening, with sound. (But I guess it have been played before)

A video from the guided tour too.

[catfry]

Hehe, anime superhero hair!

[JimO]

See the pictures of Russian space heroes over the hatchway? What's that winged spacecraft between two of them?

L to R behind Nyberg and Garan:

Korolyov

Gagarin

Delta-winged spacecraft - unknown to me

Tsiolkovskiy

 




Is it an emblem? A real spacecraft?

[amaturespacecase]

I was watching the spacewalk preparations on NASA TV and when they cut away to an outside view of the station showing the Soyuz and Progress I wondered about something.

Do the solar panels on the Soyuz/Progress spacecraft provide power into the entire ISS power grid or do they simply provide the spacecraft the necessary power and heating for themselves or does the ISS provide them the power and heating they need?

[eeergo]

See the pictures of Russian space heroes over the hatchway? What's that winged spacecraft between two of them?

L to R behind Nyberg and Garan:

Korolyov

Gagarin

Delta-winged spacecraft - unknown to me

Tsiolkovskiy

 




Is it an emblem? A real spacecraft?

That'd be Kliper, there's a whole thread about it in the Russian Forum.

[JimO]

Thanks, several emailers have slapped me about the face to 'wake me up'...