Author Topic: LIVE: Soyuz TMA-15 launch and Docking May 27 - 29, 2009 (Read 89234 times)

TJL · « **Reply #40 on:** 05/25/2009 08:42 pm »

The Soyuz TM 24 crew was replaced (due to medical issue of one crew member) 5 days prior to launch, back in 1996.

jacqmans · « **Reply #41 on:** 05/25/2009 09:09 pm »

Crew is looking fine in these photos:

http://www.roscosmos.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=6330

jacqmans · « **Reply #42 on:** 05/25/2009 09:17 pm »

May 25, 2009. Baikonur launch site,
branch office of S.P.Korolev RSC Energia

At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-15 transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.

A rollout of the Soyuz spacecraft from the assembly-test facility to the launch site was provided. The Soyuz-FG launch vehicle with the Soyuz TMA-15 transport spacecraft was erected on the launch pad. Operations under the launch minus two days program began.

The launch of the Soyuz-FG integrated launch vehicle with the Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft to the ISS Orbital Complex is planned for May 27, 2009 at 14:34:49 Moscow time.

http://www.energia.ru/eng/iss/iss20/photo_05-25.html

JimO · « **Reply #43 on:** 05/26/2009 12:31 am »

Russian press (eg http://www.kp.ru/online/news/490830/) now widely reporting that it was a Canadian journalist, now hospitalized at Baykonur with a 37deg fever, whom the crew was exposed to during the tree planting ceremony, but only at a distance. Seems a surfeit of caution, but something not to be overlooked.

robertross · « **Reply #44 on:** 05/26/2009 01:39 am »

Quote from: JimO on 05/26/2009 12:31 am

Russian press (eg http://www.kp.ru/online/news/490830/) now widely reporting that it was a Canadian journalist, now hospitalized at Baykonur with a 37deg fever, whom the crew was exposed to during the tree planting ceremony, but only at a distance. Seems a surfeit of caution, but something not to be overlooked.

Those damn Canadians...oh wait, that's me!

Ronsmytheiii · « **Reply #45 on:** 05/26/2009 02:40 am »

Quote from: JimO on 05/26/2009 12:31 am

Russian press (eg http://www.kp.ru/online/news/490830/) now widely reporting that it was a Canadian journalist, now hospitalized at Baykonur with a 37deg fever, whom the crew was exposed to during the tree planting ceremony, but only at a distance. Seems a surfeit of caution, but something not to be overlooked.

However It appears the backup crew was also there, so wouldn't both crews be at risk?

MKremer · « **Reply #46 on:** 05/26/2009 04:37 am »

I thought quarantine meant "quarantine", meaning no risk of exposure whatsoever to people outside of the needed quarantine personnel. You'd think, especially with this new flu strain around, they'd make everyone wear masks whenever exposure is a risk.

rosbif73 · « **Reply #47 on:** 05/26/2009 07:12 am »

Quote from: JimO on 05/26/2009 12:31 am

Russian press (eg http://www.kp.ru/online/news/490830/) now widely reporting that it was a Canadian journalist, now hospitalized at Baykonur with a 37deg fever, whom the crew was exposed to during the tree planting ceremony, but only at a distance. Seems a surfeit of caution, but something not to be overlooked.

37°C isn't fever, it's standard body temperature. Then again, the article mentions A/H1N1 swine flu as a possibility so maybe caution really is in order.

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"While all present at the ceremony, except for the astronauts were in gauze bandage, as is in the zone observatsionnogo regime, however, the risk of infection can not be ruled out," - think of the cosmodrome.

Machine translation still has a long way to go! I have this mental picture of everyone wrapped up like mummies - though I assume it actually means they were wearing face masks.

asdert · « **Reply #48 on:** 05/26/2009 08:08 am »

Does anyone happen to know Romanenko's call sign?

jacqmans · « **Reply #49 on:** 05/26/2009 08:43 am »

26-05-2009 The State Commission approved the crew of Soyuz TMA-15:

http://www.roscosmos.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=6332

SiberianTiger · « **Reply #50 on:** 05/26/2009 09:50 am »

Quote from: asdert on 05/26/2009 08:08 am

Does anyone happen to know Romanenko's call sign?

His call sign is Титан (tee-tahn, meaning Titan)

jacqmans · « **Reply #51 on:** 05/26/2009 09:51 am »

OasISS mission: watch the launch live on the ESA website

26 May 2009 ESA astronaut Frank De Winne starts his six-month OasISS mission with the launch of the Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft to the International Space Station on Wednesday 27 May at 12:34 CEST (10:34 UT).

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/OasISS_Mission/SEMTEW0OWUF_0.html

TALsite · « **Reply #52 on:** 05/26/2009 09:57 am »

Quote from: asdert on 05/26/2009 08:08 am

Does anyone happen to know Romanenko's call sign?

When he was backup for the TMA-10 flight, he chose PARUS ("Sail")

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Jacqmans
The State Commission approved the crew...

Is discarded the concern about the flu?

William Graham · « **Reply #53 on:** 05/26/2009 10:28 am »

Quote from: SiberianTiger on 05/26/2009 09:50 am

Quote from: asdert on 05/26/2009 08:08 am
Does anyone happen to know Romanenko's call sign?

His call sign is Титан (tee-tahn, meaning Titan)

That was also the callsign for Soyuz TMA-13.

SiberianTiger · « **Reply #54 on:** 05/26/2009 03:03 pm »

Quote from: TALsite on 05/26/2009 09:57 am

When he was backup for the TMA-10 flight, he chose PARUS ("Sail")

It looks you are right: the TMA-15 Crew Commander's call sign is PARUS indeed. My previous statement was wrong.

anik · « **Reply #55 on:** 05/26/2009 06:03 pm »

Planned exact launch time is 10:34:53 UTC.

JimO · « **Reply #56 on:** 05/26/2009 09:19 pm »

The 'swine flu space scare' has evaporated, but it seems one myth lingers -- the thought that the crew was safe from infection at the tree planting on Monday because the press was kept at a safe distance and all of them wore surgical masks.

NK's website has a series of pictures of this event, and this one can be contrasted with the 'safe' meme:

http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/content/newspictures/784d03.jpg

The flight crew stands within one or two meters of a pack of unmasked journalists.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #57 on:** 05/26/2009 09:32 pm »

About 12 hours to launch I believe, so let's move to this for live coverage.

robertross · « **Reply #58 on:** 05/27/2009 12:37 am »

Awesome.

Let me be the first (for Live Coverage) to thank NASA, the United States, and fellow ISS members countries for allowing Canada to participate in the first 6-person ISS crew.

Truly a momentous occasion for Canada.

I look forward to seeing Mr. Thirsk drink his first glass of treated urine in space

Fellow NSF participants: let the show begin!

TJL · « **Reply #59 on:** 05/27/2009 02:42 am »

I was surprised to see the U.S. flag on the shroud of the TMA 15 spacecraft. I thought that was only there when a member of the U.S. astronaut program is aboard.

http://www.spacefacts.de/graph/drawing/drawings2/soyuz-tma-15_rollout.jpg