Author Topic: LIVE: Soyuz-FG launch w/ Soyuz TMA-07M & docking to ISS - Dec 19-21, 2012 (Read 113046 times)

jacqmans · « **Reply #42 on:** 12/01/2012 11:23 am »

Luca Parmitano‏@astro_luca

Exp34/36 prime and backup crew in the Cosmonauts' museum in Star City. http://pic.twitter.com/6p0oI3It

Nicolas PILLET · « **Reply #43 on:** 12/04/2012 09:07 pm »

On Novosti Kosmonavtiki :

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3 декабря 2012 г. советом главных конструкторов рассмотрена и подтверждена готовность российского сегмента МКС и ракетно-космического комплекса "Союз-ФГ" (№ Л15000-040) / "Союз ТМА-07М" (зав. № 704А в составе БО № 707, ПАО № 707 и СА № 708) к проведению работ по программе МКС-34/35.

http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/news/3839/

jacqmans · « **Reply #44 on:** 12/06/2012 01:38 pm »

Last chance to talk with astronaut Chris Hadfield

Longueuil, Quebec, December 6, 2012 – December 11 will be the last opportunity for media representatives to ask questions to Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Astronaut Chris Hadfield before he embarks on his five-month mission in space. Hadfield is set to launch aboard a Russian Soyuz vehicle on December 19.

Media representatives are invited to participate in a teleconference with Hadfield while he is in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, only a few days before the launch.

Media representatives must contact CSA Media Relations to receive the phone number and access code for the teleconference.

Date: December 11th, 2012

Time: 10 to 11 a.m.*

What: Teleconference with Chris Hadfield

Who: Chris Hadfield, CSA Astronaut

Where: Please contact CSA Media Relations to obtain the phone number and access code for the teleconference.

* Time subject to change

jacqmans · « **Reply #45 on:** 12/06/2012 01:43 pm »

Chris Hadfield‏@Cmdr_Hadfield

Gagarin Goodbye - Yuri and I wave farewell to Star City. Off to Baikonur! http://pic.twitter.com/RcQBlc6o

jacqmans · « **Reply #46 on:** 12/06/2012 01:43 pm »

Chris Hadfield‏@Cmdr_Hadfield

Our crew, Russian transport plane in background, soon to be headed south-east together to Kazakhstan. http://pic.twitter.com/Vgrz3Y7U

jacqmans · « **Reply #47 on:** 12/06/2012 01:46 pm »

jacqmans · « **Reply #48 on:** 12/06/2012 01:49 pm »

http://www.federalspace.ru/main.php?id=2&nid=19743

jacqmans · « **Reply #49 on:** 12/06/2012 01:50 pm »

December 6, 2012.
Soyuz TMA-07M primary and backup crews
arrived to the Baikonur launch site

Primary (Roman Yurievich Romanenko (Roscosmos, Russia), Christopher Austin Hadfield (CSA, Canada) and Thomas Henry Marshburn (NASA, USA)) and backup (Fyodor Nikolaevich Yurchikhin (Roscosmos, Russia), Luca Salvo Parmitano (ESA, Italy) and Karen Lujean Nyberg (NASA, USA)) crews of the Soyuz TMA-07M transportation spacecraft arrived to the Baikonur launch site.
At the airport they were met by members of the State Commission and Technical Management.

Commanders of the crews reported on their readiness for pre-flight training and Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft acceptance.

http://www.energia.ru/en/iss/iss34/photo_12-06.html

Artyom. · « **Reply #50 on:** 12/06/2012 03:30 pm »

John44 · « **Reply #51 on:** 12/06/2012 05:13 pm »

Expedition 34/35 - Crew Departure for Baikonur Activities from Star City, Russia
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7981

Artyom. · « **Reply #52 on:** 12/07/2012 08:11 am »

jacqmans · « **Reply #53 on:** 12/07/2012 12:59 pm »

December 7, 2012.
Soyuz TMA-07M crews initiated a final training phase

The prime and backup crews for the ISS-34/35 initiated a final training phase in the processing facility.

Roman Yurievich Romanenko (Roscosmos, Russia), Christopher Austin Hadfield (CSA, Canada), Thomas Henry Marshburn (NASA, USA), Fyodor Nikolaevich Yurchikhin (Roscosmos, Russia), Luca Salvo Parmitano (ESA, Italy) and Karen Lujean Nyberg (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.

Today a meeting of Technical Management was held where a decision to fill the Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft with propellant components and compressed gases was accepted.

http://www.energia.ru/en/iss/iss34/photo_12-07.html

jacqmans · « **Reply #54 on:** 12/07/2012 01:02 pm »

http://www.federalspace.ru/main.php?id=2&nid=19746

jacqmans · « **Reply #55 on:** 12/07/2012 01:04 pm »

Chris Hadfield‏@Cmdr_Hadfield

3 men in a Soyuz. Few things better than being inside your own spaceship for the 1st time! That new spaceship smell

http://pic.twitter.com/o4anulZR

jacqmans · « **Reply #56 on:** 12/07/2012 01:05 pm »

Thomas H. Marshburn‏@AstroMarshburn

Landmark day today. We met and got to know our spacecraft for the first time! http://pic.twitter.com/QOZukKCr

jacqmans · « **Reply #57 on:** 12/07/2012 01:06 pm »

Luca Parmitano‏@astro_luca

Exp34/45 prime and backup crew with the Energia (which builds the Soyuz) chiefs after checking the spacecraft. http://pic.twitter.com/DvByFn1l

jacqmans · « **Reply #58 on:** 12/07/2012 01:07 pm »

Luca Parmitano‏@astro_luca

Two friends who are going to space in less than 2 weeks. I'm the backup for @Cmdr_Hadfield, on the right in his Sokol. http://pic.twitter.com/cQGE0VNP

jacqmans · « **Reply #59 on:** 12/07/2012 01:08 pm »

Luca Parmitano‏@astro_luca

The protective shell for the Soyuz TMA-M7. The actual spacecraft is inside the yellow structure in the background. http://pic.twitter.com/Qh3yNPNk