Author Topic: Soyuz TMA-09M Events - May - November, 2013 (Read 172069 times)

anik · « **Reply #20 on:** 03/28/2013 10:34 am »

Spacecraft has arrived to Baikonur yesterday, as per Interfax info.

Galactic Penguin SST · « **Reply #21 on:** 04/01/2013 04:14 pm »

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Luca Parmitano ‏@astro_luca
Disappointed about the Exp.36 #Soyuz launch date slip, but better be safe than sorry. I guess it means more time to get ready!

What's going on?

Space Pete · « **Reply #22 on:** 04/01/2013 04:42 pm »

Hmmm, don't like the sound of this....

Had better not be an April Fool!

collectSPACE · « **Reply #23 on:** 04/01/2013 05:22 pm »

Quote from: Space Pete on 04/01/2013 04:42 pm

Had better not be an April Fool!

https://twitter.com/AstroKarenN/status/318772456091422720

Space Pete · « **Reply #24 on:** 04/01/2013 05:25 pm »

Oh Luca, that just wasn't funny.

If the launch really does slip now, we can all blame him for jinxing it!

To be fair though, he got me going....

Ian · « **Reply #25 on:** 04/02/2013 03:06 pm »

Quote from: Space Pete on 04/01/2013 05:25 pm

Oh Luca, that just wasn't funny.

If the launch really does slip now, we can all blame him for jinxing it!

To be fair though, he got me going....

The 2009 ESA Astronauts call themselves shenanigans09 what did you expect?

jacqmans · « **Reply #26 on:** 04/18/2013 02:59 pm »

Luke Skywalker

Posted on April 18, 2013 by raffaella

I am in Moscow, Russia, five weeks till launch

These are the last weeks I will spend with my feet firmly on the ground (my head is still in the clouds, as always). I feel as though I was thrown in a blender: there are many last-minute things to do that need my direct attention and cannot wait. Despite being so busy with my training, I need to find a way to distribute my attention to other matters. My focus is mainly on the final exams for the Soyuz spacecraft and on the Russian segment of the International Space Station that will begin this week.

http://blogs.esa.int/luca-parmitano/2013/04/18/luke-skywalker/

jacqmans · « **Reply #27 on:** 04/19/2013 02:20 pm »

Luca Parmitano‏@astro_luca

The committee gives me my score: exam passed! Now a celebratory 10k run. Beautiful weather here in Star City. pic.twitter.com/53VgPOpWqC

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Luca Parmitano‏@astro_luca

My instructor and CDR give their last recommendations right before my Manual Reentry exam in the centrifuge. pic.twitter.com/6BEGsxNQtm

Fuji · « **Reply #28 on:** 04/26/2013 01:57 am »

May 28, Tuesday
Launch scheduled at 4:31 p.m. ET
Docking scheduled at 10:17 p.m. ET
Hatch Opening scheduled at 11:55 p.m. ET
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Breaking.html

SMS · « **Reply #29 on:** 04/26/2013 08:58 pm »

Some new photos from Star City...

SMS · « **Reply #30 on:** 04/26/2013 09:53 pm »

Prime crew portraits

anik · « **Reply #31 on:** 04/29/2013 12:37 pm »

The launch is planned at 20:31:24 UTC on May 28th.

jacqmans · « **Reply #32 on:** 04/30/2013 05:21 pm »

MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-067

NASA ASTRONAUT KAREN NYBERG AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS BEFORE SPACE STATION MISSION

WASHINGTON -- NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, a Vining, Minn., native who
is making final preparations for a launch to the International Space
Station, will be available for live satellite interviews from 7- 8
a.m. EDT Thursday, May 9.

The interviews will originate from the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training
Center in Star City, Russia. Before they start, NASA Television will
air a video b-roll feed at 6:30 a.m., of Nyberg's mission training
and previous spaceflight.

To participate in the interviews, reporters should contact Seth
Marcantel at 281-792-7515 no later than 3 p.m. Wednesday, May 8.

Nyberg earned an undergraduate degree from the University of North
Dakota and graduate and doctorate degrees from the University of
Texas at Austin. A mechanical engineer by training, she served in
various engineering roles at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston
prior to being selected as an astronaut in 2000. Nyberg previously
flew in space as a mission specialist aboard space shuttle Discovery
on STS-124 in 2008.

Nyberg will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:31
p.m. EDT May 28 aboard a Soyuz spacecraft along with Fyodor
Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency and Luca Parmitano of
the European Space Agency. The trio is scheduled to return to Earth
in November.

This launch is the second time in two months a piloted Soyuz
spacecraft will have launched and docked to the International Space
Station within six hours. When the Soyuz arrives at the station, the
crew will join Expedition 36 NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, and
Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin and Pavel
Vinogradov, who launched in March. The crew will participate in
several hundred experiments that cross the fields of biology and
biotechnology, physical science, and earth science during their
mission, which will last nearly six months.

NASA TV's Media Channel 103 will carry the b-roll and will be used to
conduct the interviews. It is an MPEG-4 digital C-band signal,
carried by QPSK/DVB-S modulation on satellite AMC-18C, transponder
3C, at 105 degrees west longitude, with a downlink frequency of 3760
MHz, vertical polarization, data rate of 38.80 MHz, symbol rate of
28.0681 Mbps, and 3/4 FEC. A Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) compliant
Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD) is needed for reception. The
Compression Format is MPEG-4, Video PID = 0x1031 hex / 4145 decimal,
AC-3 Audio PID = 0x1035 hex /4149 decimal, MPEG I Layer II Audio PID
= 0x1034 hex /4148 decimal.

Nyberg's biography is available at:

http://go.nasa.gov/np5ICw

Follow Nyberg and other NASA astronauts via Twitter at:

@AstroKarenN and @NASA_Astronauts

For more information about Expedition 36 and 37, visit:

http://go.nasa.gov/139pjnN

For information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

jacqmans · « **Reply #33 on:** 04/30/2013 05:35 pm »

Luca Parmitano‏@astro_luca

subito prima dell'esame! MT “@Linkiesta: Mosca, @astro_luca pronto al lancio. FOTO, con tifo http://www.linkiesta.it/mosca-l-astronauta-italiano-pronto-al-lancio … pic.twitter.com/kTBSCIghF0”

jacqmans · « **Reply #34 on:** 04/30/2013 05:38 pm »

Karen L. Nyberg‏@AstroKarenN

Sewing new patch on flight suit. Mixed emotions taking off the old. pic.twitter.com/9hHUve41Xg

Lewis007 · « **Reply #35 on:** 05/01/2013 07:07 am »

The final exams have been spread over four days (April 29-30, plus May 6-7), as both the the normal 2-day docking scheme and the fast-track approach are included in the exam sessions in the Soyuz simulator.
See:http://www.gctc.ru/main.php?id=2005

SMS · « **Reply #36 on:** 05/01/2013 06:39 pm »

Back-up crew portraits

John44 · « **Reply #37 on:** 05/02/2013 05:50 pm »

http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8230:expedition-3637-qualification-training-simulation-runs-at-star-city-russia&catid=1:latest

jacqmans · « **Reply #38 on:** 05/07/2013 08:41 am »

Karen L. Nyberg‏@AstroKarenN

I looked scared! =) “@astro_luca: After the exam, a whole lot of people are there to tell us how we did. pic.twitter.com/5cMCXgbbhp”

jacqmans · « **Reply #39 on:** 05/07/2013 08:43 am »