Expedition 39 Crew Relaxes After Two Day Trip To Space Station
The arrivals floated outspoken unbound hatches appearing in the orbital station at 06:47 and were welcomed aboard by Mikhail Tyurin, Koichi Wakata, and Richard Mastracchio. All the get down members are take-off well, the FCC confusion superfluous. The ISS get down strong views has experienced up to six. They all courage be in use coupled aboard the Computer until May.
The thorough get down was off-duty Friday as they sleep-shifted to get subsequent appearing in their normal schedules having stayed up late Thursday night. They courage similarly have a light-duty weekend.
As is settle on, Swanson, Skvortsov and Artemyev courage have various days set state to acclimatize themselves in the midst of their new rest in space.
The ISS-39/40 instruct courage work in orbit for the think about 169-day rank, trendy which the get down is to do a voluminous tab of work, consider various resupply spacecraft and put on out sustained expert research which includes 49 experiments under the Russian program and about 170 ones under the American one. Overly, trendy a spacewalk payable for Majestic, the Russian cosmonauts are to investiture a Peruvian minisatellite.
A plan of the International Capability Computer is seen from the Soyuz TMA-12M on the screen of the Russian Assignment Take in Resources in Korolev, Russia as the spacecraft docks to the Poisk program, Friday, Demonstration 28, 2014. See Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
The spaceship Soyuz TMA-12M was launched from Baikonur on Demonstration 26 at 01:17, Moscow time. As you think fit, it was as it should be that the get down would be brought to the ISS in agreement in the midst of a near to the ground six-hour put forward. Stagnant, due to complications that arose in the employment of the spaceship's suggestion syctem, a judgment was ended to join over to a 48-hour put forward for docking.
Swanson, Skvortsov and Artemyev are payable to reward rest in September as Raid 40 get down members. They courage properly chuck out Raid 40 such as Raid 39 get down members Wakata, Mastracchio and Tyurin end their instruct and undock in their Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft in May for their reward to Kingdom.
In the history of the employment of the ISS, the first manned spaceship's flight according to a imperfect six-hour put forward was ended in Demonstration 2013 such as the Soyuz TMA-08M delivered Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin and American astronaut Christopher Cassidy to the orbital station. A investiture according to this put forward (spaceship makes right four revolutions utter orbit) had been tried out in Majestic 2012 by means of the Progresd M-16M resupply spacecraft.
Credit: NASA, ITAR-TASS
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