Author Topic: LIVE: Soyuz TMA-06M Undocking, Re-Entry and Landing - March 15/16 2013 (Read 55498 times)

Lee Jay · « **Reply #180 on:** 03/16/2013 09:12 pm »

Quote from: Space Pete on 03/16/2013 08:53 pm

NASA992 now on the ground in Bangor, Maine. Kevin Ford is back on US soil.

After a roughly 30 minute refuelling stop, NASA992 will begin the four hour flight to Ellington in Houston, with arrival scheduled for 9:06 PM local time (CDT) - almost exactly 23 hours after Ford's touchdown in Kazakhstan.

What a day! I hope the poor fellow got some sleep in there somewhere!

SMS · « **Reply #181 on:** 03/16/2013 09:12 pm »

It's the 12th direct return for USOS crewmember.

If anyone has seen materials from landing in Houston / Ellington AFB and welcome USOS members on American base?

Space Pete · « **Reply #182 on:** 03/16/2013 09:23 pm »

Quote from: Lee Jay on 03/16/2013 09:12 pm

What a day! I hope the poor fellow got some sleep in there somewhere!

Don't forget, he's been up since 7 AM GMT on Friday - so by the time he lands at 2 AM GMT on Sunday, he'll have had a 43 hour day! I'm sure he'll have napped on the plane, though.

SMS: No, unlike returning Shuttle crewmembers, no welcome ceremony will be performed at Ellington (who would want one after being awake that long)! Instead, Ford will be allowed to go straight home, with an official ceremony being performed at a later date.

Space Pete · « **Reply #183 on:** 03/16/2013 09:27 pm »

And NASA992 is now in the air once again, on the last leg of its ~7,200 mile journey.

I wonder whether JSC would consider using the NASA905 SCA for direct return missions? They could probably fly non-stop from Kazakhstan to Houston, and there would be lots of room for the crew to stretch their legs in the back!

Space Pete · « **Reply #184 on:** 03/17/2013 01:28 am »

NASA992 is now on the ground at Ellington. Kevin Ford is home, his space adventure now safely and successfully concluded.

Welcome back, Kevin - now go and enjoy your re-union with family/friends, a hot meal, a shower, and a nice long sleep.

Artyom. · « **Reply #185 on:** 03/17/2013 03:44 am »

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Soyuz departing - Oleg, Kev & Evgeni passing underneath Space Station on their way home after 5 months.

https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/status/312925971328167936/photo/1

Space Pete · « **Reply #186 on:** 03/22/2013 01:59 pm »

Very interesting!

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ISS Cosmonauts Model Manually Controlled Landing on Mars

ZVYOZDNY GORODOK, March 19 (RIA Novosti) - For the first time, two Russian cosmonauts simulated a manually controlled landing from the orbit on Mars after they spent half a year in the space, a deputy head of the Russian Space Training Center said on Monday.

Cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Yevgeny Tarelkin, who returned from the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday after spending there 143 days, used a centrifuge at the Space Training Center in Moscow Region’s Star City, to successfully imitate a manually controlled landing on Mars.

“Because it takes at least half a year to reach Mars, we had no data until yesterday, whether cosmonauts will be fit and capable of conducting a manually controlled landing on Mars in the future,” said Boris Kryuchkov, a deputy head of the Space Training Center.

“We now know that it is real, because for the first time in history cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Yevgeny Tarelkin, who returned from the ISS on March 16, have confirmed such possibility,” he added.

http://en.rian.ru/science/20130319/180103200/ISS-Cosmonauts-Model-Manually-Controlled-Landing-on-Mars.html

Artyom. · « **Reply #187 on:** 03/22/2013 02:23 pm »

Quote from: Space Pete on 03/22/2013 01:59 pm

Very interesting!

That's for sure

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Photos - http://www.gctc.ru/main.php?id=1942

asmi · « **Reply #188 on:** 03/22/2013 10:04 pm »

Wow! This is cool sim!

Nicolas PILLET · « **Reply #189 on:** 03/25/2013 07:50 pm »

Quote from: DaveS on 03/15/2013 01:50 pm

Quote from: Targeteer on 03/15/2013 12:19 pm
Quote from: jacqmans on 03/15/2013 08:48 am
New Status:

32 Soyuz (S) Undock Preparation: The Soyuz Landing Commission postponed the 32S landing by one day due to weather conditions at the landing site near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan. Specialists are continuing to monitor the weather conditions at the landing site, and ground teams are re-working the landing plan for tomorrow.

http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/reports/iss_reports/

This is the first time I can remember any Russian space activity, let alone an ISS related launch/landing, being effected by weather. Anyone have a history of such (rare) occurences?
Expedition 18 suffered a one-day delay to their landing due to bad weather at the landing zone.

It was not the same situation. For Soyuz TMA-13, they switched to the backup landing zone. Consequently to this switch, the landing was delayed several hours.