Author Topic: LIVE: Soyuz-FG launch and Soyuz TMA-19M docking - December 15, 2015 (Read 104373 times)

jacqmans · « **on:** 08/19/2014 03:11 pm »

Coverage of the TMA-19M mission.

Lead Article - by Pete Harding.
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/12/soyuz-tma-19m-launch-landmark-uk-spaceflight/

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Tim Peake

Had a bath today - in gypsum! This will be the mould for my Soyuz seat liner, which ensures a snug fit on launch & re-entry!

jacqmans · « **Reply #1 on:** 09/05/2015 10:45 am »

The Soyuz TMA-19M patch was designed by Luc van den Abeelen. Copyright Roscosmos/spacepatches.nl

jacqmans · « **Reply #2 on:** 09/23/2015 05:24 pm »

Official Roscosmos/spacepatches.nl prime and back-up patch for the Soyuz MA-19M flight.

John44 · « **Reply #3 on:** 09/24/2015 08:54 pm »

Expedition 46/47 - Crew News Conference
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9615

ZachS09 · « **Reply #4 on:** 09/24/2015 09:54 pm »

I'm having a hard time figuring out the seat arrangements for TMA-19M; is Peake in the left-hand seat with Kopra in the right-hand seat or is it the other way?

collectSPACE · « **Reply #5 on:** 09/24/2015 09:59 pm »

Kopra is the left-seater.

ZachS09 · « **Reply #6 on:** 09/24/2015 10:00 pm »

Thanks

John44 · « **Reply #7 on:** 09/27/2015 12:36 pm »

Expedition 46/47 - Crew Training Resource Reel
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9616

Joachim · « **Reply #8 on:** 09/30/2015 12:45 pm »

An unofficial crew portrait published at Flickr site of Tim Peake.

jacqmans · « **Reply #9 on:** 11/03/2015 05:48 am »

Press Release
N°40-2015

Paris, 2 November 2015

Call for Media: Opportunity to talk to astronaut Tim Peake before he sets off for space

On 6 November, ESA's first British astronaut, Tim Peake, will be paying his last visit to the UK before his launch to the International Space Station. He will take part in a news conference at the Science Museum London to discuss his upcoming mission.

Together with Jo Johnson, UK Minister of State for Universities and Science, Thomas Reiter, ESA's Director of Human Spaceflight and Operations, and David Parker, CEO of the UK Space Agency, Tim will talk with journalists about his training, and the
science and education objectives of his mission. While in space, Tim will perform more than 30 experiments for ESA and its Member States and take part in numerous others from ESA's international partners.

Tim's mission is ESA's eighth long-duration mission to the Space Station. It will start aboard a Soyuz spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 15 December. Together with NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian cosmonaut Yuri
Malenchenko, Tim will embark on a six-month stay in space.

The mission is named Principia, after Isaac Newton's ground-breaking Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which describes the principal laws of motion and gravity.

ESA and the UK Space Agency are together developing many exciting educational activities aimed at sparking the interest of young children in science and space, including Rocket Science, AstroPi, Zero Robotics, Mission-X Train like an Astronaut, and
amateur radio contact in space.

Programme (all times in GMT)
Friday, 6 November 2015
Science Museum
Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2DD

08:45-09:30 Registration
09:40-10:10 Speakers:
- David Parker, CEO, UK Space Agency
- Jo Johnson, UK Minister for Universities and Science
- Thomas Reiter, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight and Operations/ESA Astronaut
- Tim Peake, ESA Astronaut
10:10-10:35 Q&A
10:45-12:10 Interview opportunities for broadcast media

Accreditation
To register for the media conference, please email:

Julia Short, UK Space Agency
[email protected]
Tel: +44 (0)1793 418 069
Mob: +44 (0)7770 276 721-

Lorraine Conroy, European Space Agency
[email protected]
Tel: +31 715 653 408
Mob: +31 631 694 580

Education programme
The UK Space Agency is investing more than £1.5 million in education and outreach projects that harness the inspirational power of Tim's mission. The wide array of projects, in partnership with ESA, will allow him to share his mission with the children
of the UK, bringing the excitement of space to classrooms and venues across the country and encouraging interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematical subjects.
From space experiments to family shows, a wide variety of exciting projects and activities can be found on the UK Space Agency's Principia website www.principia.org.uk as well as on the ESA Kids site at http://www.esa.int/kids

Launch day
Tim will be launched in a Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur, Kazakhstan at 11:02 GMT on 15 December 2015. Soyuz separation is expected at 11:13 GMT, Space Station docking at 16:58 GMT and hatch opening at 18:33 GMT.
In the UK, the UK Space Agency is coordinating four major launch events in each of the nation's capitals and smaller events across the country, with ESA participation. More details will be provided at the press conference.

saturnapollo · « **Reply #10 on:** 11/03/2015 09:09 am »

Am I correct in thinking docking will be at Rassvet?

Keith

Star One · « **Reply #11 on:** 11/06/2015 06:58 pm »

From Tim's Twitter account. Just call him 007.

https://mobile.twitter.com/astro_timpeake/status/662330581775228928

jacqmans · « **Reply #12 on:** 11/14/2015 09:03 am »

http://www.gctc.ru/main.php?id=3227

jacqmans · « **Reply #13 on:** 11/17/2015 09:08 am »

SMS · « **Reply #14 on:** 11/17/2015 05:43 pm »

Prime crew portrait

jacqmans · « **Reply #15 on:** 11/18/2015 09:37 am »

November 17, 2015
MEDIA ADVISORY M15-163

NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra Available for Interviews Before Space Station Mission

NASA astronaut Tim Kopra, who is making final preparations for a December launch to the International Space Station, is available for live satellite interviews from 7-8 a.m. EST Tuesday, Nov. 24.

Kopra will participate in the interviews live from the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. The interviews will be preceded at 6:30 a.m. by a video highlighting his mission training.

To participate, reporters should contact Karen Svetaka at 281-483-8684 no later than 3 p.m. Monday, Nov. 23. Media participating in the live shots must tune to NTV-3. Satellite tuning information is available at:

http://go.nasa.gov/1pOWUhR

Kopra, who was born in Austin, Texas, will launch to the station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft at 6:03 a.m. EST on Dec. 15 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, along with crewmates cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Tim Peake of ESA (European Space Agency).

Kopra’s first mission to space was as a flight engineer on Expedition 20 in 2009. During that two-month mission, he completed one spacewalk that lasted five hours, 32 minutes. He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York. He holds a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, a second master’s degree in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and a third and fourth in business administration from Columbia University in New York and London Business School in the United Kingdom.

At the space station, Kopra, Malenchenko and Peake will join Expedition 46 NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Roscosmos cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov. Kelly and Kornienko are approaching the ninth month of their one-year mission on board the space station. Together, the six crew members will continue the several hundred experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science currently underway and scheduled to take place aboard humanity’s only orbiting laboratory.

Kopra is scheduled to return to Earth with crew members Malenchenko and Peake in June.

For more information on NASA TV coverage, see:

http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

Kopra’s biography is available at:

http://go.usa.gov/c2WVY

Follow Kopra on Twitter:

http://twitter.com/astro_tim

Follow Expedition 46 and 47 crew members on Instagram:

http://instagram.com/iss

For information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

Nicolas PILLET · « **Reply #16 on:** 11/19/2015 07:01 pm »

Preparation of Soyuz TMA-19M for vacuum testing : http://www.tsenki.com/354/ (with pictures)

jacqmans · « **Reply #17 on:** 11/20/2015 02:46 pm »

Prime and back-up crews for TMA-19M

John44 · « **Reply #18 on:** 11/20/2015 03:54 pm »

Expedition 46-47 - Crew Qualification Training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9670

John44 · « **Reply #19 on:** 11/23/2015 08:32 pm »

Expedition 46-47 - Crew News Conference at Star City
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9673

Expedition 46-47 - Crew’s Visit to the Gagarin Museum in Star City
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9674