Новости МКС

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https://ria.ru/science/20170406/1491604706.html

МЧС провела сеанс связи с МКС и обсудила съемки поверхности Земли

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МОСКВА, 6 апр — РИА Новости. Начальник Национального центра управления в кризисных ситуациях (НЦУКС) МЧС России Виктор Яцуценко провел сеанс связи с космонавтами Международной космической станцией (МКС) и обсудил вопросы продолжения сотрудничества.
Во время сеанса связи Яцуценко и бортинженер экипажа МКС Сергей Рыжиков обсудили ход выполнения экипажем космического эксперимента "Сценарий". "В рамках заключенного соглашения о взаимодействии МЧС России и Роскосмоса НЦУКС активно участвует в проведении эксперимента "Сценарий", в ходе которого съемка земной поверхности, по заданию НЦУКС, осуществляется космонавтами непосредственно с МКС", — сказал Яцуценко.
По его словам, поступающие в НЦУКС с МКС снимки успешно используются для мониторинга лесопожарной обстановки, движения ледостава на крупных реках, а также вулканической активности. "Данные с борта МКС позволяют органам и силам управления МЧС на всех уровнях получать информацию об оперативной обстановке. Мы ежедневно благодаря вашим снимкам уточняем масштабы и динамику развития ЧС — это позволяет нам принимать меры, направленные на недопущение человеческих жертв и материального ущерба", — сказал в ходе сеанса связи Яцуценко.
От имени спасателей МЧС России он поздравил космонавтов с наступающим праздником Днем космонавтики. "Пользуясь возможностью, поздравляю вас с 56-годовщиной первого полета человека в космос. Желаю вам чистого безоблачного неба на работе, домашнего тепла в семье и успехов в покорении безбрежного океана под названием космос", — сказал начальник НЦУКС.

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 16 мин. назад

David Parker, ESA: cornerstones of our exploration program are ISS and ExoMars; both involve cooperation with Russia. #33SS

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2017/04/07/crew-packing-soyuz-for-monday-landing/

Crew Packing Soyuz for Monday Landing
Posted on April 7, 2017 at 2:12 pm by Mark Garcia.

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This long exposure photograph shows the Earth, its atmospheric glow and stars from the International Space Station.

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Two NASA astronauts and a European Space Agency astronaut headed into the weekend with a light day Friday. Meanwhile, the three cosmonauts from Roscosmos packed a Soyuz spacecraft for departure and worked on maintenance and science.

Commander Shane Kimbrough, who is returning to Earth early Monday, took it easy Friday aboard the International Space Station. He and Flight Engineers Peggy Whitson and Thomas Pesquet mainly performed light duty tasks and continued their daily exercise to stay healthy in space.

Cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko, who are returning home Monday with Kimbrough, continued packing the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft that will parachute the trio to a landing in Kazakhstan after a 173 days in space.

Ryzhikov, who is on his first mission, will command the Soyuz during its undocking and reentry into Earth's atmosphere. Borisenko and Kimbrough are both wrapping up their second visit to space.

Whitson will become station commander for the second time in her career Sunday less than 24 hours before her crewmates undock from the Poisk module. She stays behind with fellow Expedition 50-51 crew members Pesquet and Flight Engineer Oleg Novitskiy.
                
This entry was posted in Expedition 50 and tagged European Space Agency, Expedition 50, NASA, Roscosmos, Soyuz on April 7, 2017 by Mark Garcia.

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РОСКОСМОС‏Подлинная учетная запись @roscosmos 3 ч. назад

На Международной космической станции завершается работа 50-й длительной экспедиции - https://www.roscosmos.ru/23414/ 

https://www.roscosmos.ru/23414/

ЦУП. НА МКС ЗАВЕРШАЕТ РАБОТУ 50 ДЛИТЕЛЬНАЯ ЭКСПЕДИЦИЯ
07.04.2017 10:18

На Международной космической станции (МКС) завершается работа 50-й длительной экспедиции. Члены международного экипажа транспортного пилотируемого корабля (ТПК) «Союз МС-02» космонавты Андрей БОРИСЕНКО, Сергей РЫЖИКОВ (РОСКОСМОС) и астронавт Роберт Шейн КИМБРОУ (NASA) готовятся к возвращению на Землю.

По предварительным данным службы баллистико-навигационного обеспечения Центра управления полётами (ЦУП) расстыковка корабля «Союз МС-02» с МКС планируется 10 апреля 2017 года в 10:58:30 мск.

Продолжительность пребывания в космическом полёте экипажа экспедиции МКС-49/50 составит 173 суток.

После расстыковки транспортного пилотируемого корабля «Союз МС-02» с Международной космической станцией (ТПК находится в составе станции с 21 октября 2016 года) и до прибытия на борт МКС участников следующей экспедиции работу на орбите продолжит экипаж в составе Олега НОВИЦКОГО (РОСКОСМОС), Пегги УИТСОН (NASA) и Тома ПЕСКЕ (ЕSА).

Приземление спускаемого аппарата корабля «Союз МС-02» планируется 10 апреля в 14:20 мск в 147 км юго-восточнее города Жезказган в Казахстане.

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/04/08/nasa-roscosmos-weight-extending-station-operations-to-2028/

NASA, Roscosmos open to extending station operations to 2028             
 April 8, 2017 Stephen Clark

Top officials from NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, could decide soon to commit to keeping the International Space Station staffed and flying through at least 2028, four years after the research lab's current retirement date.
The head of Roscosmos told reporters Tuesday that the Russian space agency is ready to discuss plans to keep operating the huge research complex another four years until 2028.
"We think that we should continue working in low Earth orbit," said Roscosmos chief Igor Komarov in a press conference Tuesday at the 33rd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs.
Komarov's comments came after NASA's senior human spaceflight manger, Bill Gerstenmaier, said March 29 that a decision by Congress and the Trump administration whether to commit to continuing space station operations through 2028, one way or another, will create certainty for scientists, engineers and businesses working on the program.
"Getting another decision about what we do beyond 2024 with station is really important," Gerstenmaier said in a presentation to the NASA Advisory Council's human exploration and operations committee .
With an eye toward construction of a deep space habitat around the moon in the mid-to-late 2020s, NASA intends to test out new life support systems on the space station that are not as prone to failure and do not require as much maintenance as the technologies currently on the outpost.
NASA's goal is to iron out the kinks of the next-generation life support system, and learn more about how humans respond to long-duration spaceflight, before abandoning the space station and turning attention to deep space exploration.
"The life support system on the station today is not of the reliability or the low maintenance that is needed for a Mars-class mission," Gerstenmaier said March 30. "We need to really step that up. A great place to test that, in fact the only place to really test that kind of stuff, is on-board the space station."
The Obama administration announced in early 2014 its intention to extend the U.S. commitment to the space station through 2024, a decision that Gerstenmaier lauded as allowing NASA to cement plans to deploy new technology and develop new experiments for the space station.
The decision also helped close the business case for commercial companies working on crew and cargo capsules flying to the space station, giving the service providers a steady stream of business until a potential commercial space station is built in Earth orbit.
If the White House and Congress wait too long extend the space station program, it "really limits what the commercially companies are willing to experiment with on space station," Gerstenmaier said. "It limits what we need to do with cargo resupply and crew resupply. It changes plans for what we test on station.
"The sooner we know that, the better off we are, and waiting until just four years before end of station, I personally think is not as helpful as if we can decide a lot earlier, like soon," Gerstenmaier said.
He added that there is little margin in NASA's schedule to complete the biological and technological experiments needed for deep space missions by 2024.
It took three years for all of the space station's partners to endorse the last extension, with the European Space Agency last year becoming the final participant to lengthen its commitment from 2020 to 2024.
Russia announced in 2015 that it would keep up its support of the space station through 2024, and Komarov said Tuesday that the Russian government will maintain a complex in low Earth orbit throughout the 2020s, whether it's the International Space Station or a Russian-led vehicle.
But he implied that Russia's preference is to keep the International Space Station going.
"As long as we have this instrument, the ISS, it's logical to continue this work," Komarov said.
He said the Russian government, like the other space station partners, wants "more experiments, more results and more efficiency" from the space station.
Roscosmos has a contingency plan that could involve detaching some of its newer modules from the International Space Station, including a research lab set for launch next year, to form a standalone outpost.
"It doesn't mean that we don't want to continue our cooperation," Komarov said. "We just want to be on the safe side, and in any case, and in any decision, to continue our research in low Earth orbit."
Komarov echoed Gerstenmaier's concerns about using the International Space Station to evaluate astronaut and cosmonaut health and radiation shielding before launching a crewed mission to Mars.
NASA has spent about $67 billion on the space station to date, according to Gerstenmaier. With the contributions of international partners, the orbiting research lab's total cost likely reaches above $100 billion.
"We ought to be planning, from an policy standpoint, an approach that allows us to maximize the utility of our $67 billion investment in low Earth orbit, and not pick an arbitrary (retirement) date for some other concerns," Gerstenmaier said.
NASA spends more than $3 billion to operate the space station each year, and most of that cost goes toward crew and cargo transportation to and from the complex. The outpost's "sustaining" operating budget is closer to $1 billion per year, Gerstenmaier said.
Engineers have concluded the space station is structurally sound to keep flying through 2028. Some repairs, such as replacement of the research lab's oldest power-generating solar arrays, may be required if the program is extended longer than 2028, Gerstenmaier said.
Besides the scientific justification, Gerstenmaier floated two other considerations for U.S. government decision-makers.
Around 15 percent of the global orbital launch attempts in 2015 and 2016 targeted the space station.
"Let's say we pick the end, and we're now going to pull (15 percent) out of the global launch market. Do you think I'm going to be allowed to do that? Probably not."
"The other wild card is in 2023 potentially the Chinese will have their space station," Gerstenmaier said. "What is the dynamic with the U.S. with a space station that's going away in 2024, with the Chinese having a government-operated space station in 2023? Is that the right time to cede and hand over national and global human spaceflight to another country? You should ponder some of these things."

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Brady Kenniston‏ @TheFavoritist 1 ч. назад

Look at the center of the Moon. There is a small black "H" looking spot. THATS 6 PEOPLE TRAVELING 17,200 MPH WITH THE MOON AS A BACKDROP.


Brady Kenniston‏ @TheFavoritist 30 мин. назад

Spiffy little photoshop job of all my frames combined of the @Space_Station crossing the moon tonight!

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Thomas Pesquet‏Подлинная учетная запись @Thom_astro 2 ч назад

Today #Exp50 becomes #Exp51 with @astro_kimbrough handing over command to @AstroPeggy. #Bestcrewever


Thomas Pesquet‏Подлинная учетная запись @Thom_astro 3 ч. назад

Au revoir #Exp50, bienvenue #Exp51! Presque 5 mois ensemble, une expédition épique et un record pour la science sur l'ISS!

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CanadianSpaceAgency‏Подлинная учетная запись @csa_asc 35 мин. назад

Today, @AstroPeggy becomes Commander of the @Space_Station for the 2nd time. Congratulations!

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Intl. Space Station‏Подлинная учетная запись @Space_Station 40 сек. назад

Moments ago @AstroPeggy broke yet another record when she became the first woman to command the space station twice!

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Ждём встречу на Земле!

Soyuz Landing Profile – Image: NASA

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Expedition 50 Crew Hands Over the Space Station to Expedition 51

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Опубликовано: 9 апр. 2017 г.

The reins of the International Space Station were passed from NASA's Shane Kimbrough to NASA's Peggy Whitson during a ceremony on the orbital outpost April 9. Kimbrough is returning to Earth April 10 with his Expedition 50 crewmates, Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos in the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft for a landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan to complete a 173-day mission. Whitson remains on the station as commander of Expedition 51 along with Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency.

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Intl. Space Station‏Подлинная учетная запись @Space_Station 50 мин. назад

Shane Kimbrough swaps command with Peggy Whitson Sunday. Returns to Earth w/two cosmonauts Monday at 7:21am ET. https://go.nasa.gov/2phU72a

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2017/04/09/astronauts-swap-command-before-monday-homecoming/

Astronauts Swap Command Before Monday Homecoming
Posted on April 9, 2017 at 3:07 pm by Mark Garcia.

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Astronaut Shane Kimbrough (far left) handed over station command Sunday morning to Expedition 51 Commander Peggy Whitson (far right). In between (from left) are Flight Engineers Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko, who are returning to Earth Monday with Kimbrough, and Flight Engineers Thomas Pesquet and Oleg Novitskiy, who are staying in space with Whitson. Credit: NASA TV

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NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, and his crewmates Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos, are scheduled to return to Earth on Monday, April 10 at 7:21 a.m. EDT (5:21 p.m. Kazakhstan time). The trio will land in their Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan.

Hatch closure is scheduled for 12:40 a.m. tomorrow. NASA Television coverage will begin at 12:15 a.m.

Together, the Expedition 50 crew members contributed to hundreds of experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science during their 171-day stay aboard the orbiting laboratory. In all, the departing trio will have spent 173 days in space since their launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Oct. 19 last year.

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Earlier today, Kimbrough handed over the command of station to NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson. When the spacecraft undocks from station tomorrow, Expedition 51 will formally begin.

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NASA Television coverage of Soyuz activities April 10 are listed below. Watch live on NASA's website.

Timeline and NASA TV Coverage

Time (EDT)   Event
12:15 a.m.     NASA TV Coverage of Exp. 50 Farewell and Hatch Closure Begins
 12:40 a.m.     Soyuz MS-02/Space Station Hatch Closure
 3:30 a.m.    NASA TV Coverage of Soyuz Undocking Begins
 3:56 a.m.    Soyuz Undock Command Sent
 3:57 a.m.    Soyuz Undocking from International Space Station
 4 a.m.      Separation Burn 1
 4:01 a.m.    Separation Burn 2
 6 a.m.         NASA TV Coverage of Deorbit Burn and Landing
 6:28 a.m.    Soyuz Deorbit Burn (4 minutes, 38 seconds duration)
 6:55 a.m.    Soyuz Module Separation (altitude ~87 miles)
 6:58 a.m.    Soyuz Atmospheric Entry (altitude ~62 miles)
 7:06 a.m.    Command to Open Chutes (altitude 6.7 miles)
 7:21 a.m.    Exp. 50 Soyuz MS-02 Landing southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan

Follow @space_station on Twitter for updates. For more information about the International Space Station, visit www.nasa.gov/station. To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list, please email heo-pao@lists.nasa.gov.
                
This entry was posted in Expedition 50, Expedition 51 and tagged European Space Agency, Expedition 50, International Space Station, NASA, Roscosmos on April 9, 2017 by Mark Garcia

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Update
https://www.roscosmos.ru/23403/

ПОСАДКА СПУСКАЕМОГО АППАРАТА ТПК «СОЮЗ МС-02»
10 апреля 2017
 

   Программа МКС

   
10 апреля 2017 года в 14:21 мск запланирована посадка спускаемого аппарата транспортного пилотируемого корабля «Союз МС-02» с экипажем в составе командира корабля Сергея РЫЖИКОВА (РОСКОСМОС), бортинженеров Андрея БОРИСЕНКО (РОСКОСМОС) и Роберта КИМБРОУ (NASA). Команда на расстыковку ТПК «Союз МС-02» с МКС будет дана в 10:58 мск. Планируемый район посадки спускаемого корабля - около 147 км от г.Жезказган, Республика Казахстан.   

    График трансляций посадки ТПК «Союз МС-02» 10 апреля 2017 года http://online.roscosmos.ru:

7:30 - 8:00 мск - прощание экипажей, закрытие переходных люков.
       14:20 – 15:20 мск – посадка и эвакуация членов экипажа.
 

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Онлайн трансляция ЦЭНКИ
http://www.russian.space/306/

   Прямая трансляция посадки ТПК "Союз МC-02"

   

   

   прощание экипажей, закрытие переходных люков 07:30 - 8:00 10 апреля 2017 (Московское время)

   

   посадка и эвакуация членов экипажа 14:20 - 15:20 10 апреля 2017 (Московское время)

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О трансляции НАСА (время EDT)
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#public
 
12:00 a.m. - 01:00 a.m.
ISS Expedition 50 Farewells and Hatch Closure Coverage (Ryzhikov, Borisenko, Kimbrough); hatch closure scheduled at appx. 12:40 a.m. ET) (starts at 12:15 a.m.)
 
3:30 a.m. - 4:30 a.m.
ISS Expedition 50/Soyuz MS-02 Undocking Coverage (Ryzhikov, Borisenko, Kimbrough); undocking scheduled at 3:57 a.m. ET)
 
6:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.
ISS Expedition 50/Soyuz MS-02 Deorbit Burn and Landing Coverage (Ryzhikov, Borisenko, Kimbrough); deorbit burn scheduled at 6:28 a.m. ET; landing near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan scheduled at 7:21 a.m. ET)
 
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Video File of the ISS Expedition 50/Soyuz MS-02 Landing and Post-Landing Activities (Ryzhikov, Borisenko, Kimbrough)
 
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
11:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Replay of the NASA Television Video File Feed of the ISS Expedition 50/Soyuz MS-02 Landing and Post-Landing Activities (Ryzhikov, Borisenko, Kimbrough)

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04/10/2017 01:56  Three-man crew ready to close out 173-day space mission


Outgoing space station commander Shane Kimbrough and two Russian crewmates are scheduled to return to Earth on Monday, riding a Soyuz capsule in a bubble of hot plasma to a parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan.

The trio will board their Soyuz MS-02 spaceship early Monday and close hatches between the crew transport craft and the space station's Poisk docking compartment around 0440 GMT (12:40 a.m. EDT).

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After putting on their Sokol launch and entry spacesuits, the crew will strap in for undocking and landing.

Cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov, serving as Soyuz commander, will take the center seat inside the landing craft. Flight engineer Andrey Borisenko will buckle into the left-hand seat, while Kimbrough will ride back to Earth in the right seat.

The Soyuz spacecraft will detach fr om the Poisk module at 3:57 a.m. EDT (0757 GMT), and rocket thrusters aboard the departing ship will position it for a de-orbit burn at 6:28 a.m. EDT (1028 GMT).

The braking maneuver will last about 4 minutes, 38 seconds, and slow the ship's velocity enough to drop out of orbit.

The Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft's three sections will separate at 6:55 a.m. EDT (1055 GMT). The ship's forward and aft habitation and power modules will burn up in Earth's atmosphere, while the central descent module, wh ere the crew sits, has a heat shield to withstand the scorching temperatures of re-entry.

Flying southwest to northeast over Africa and the Middle East, the landing capsule will enter the upper layers of the atmosphere at 6:58 a.m. EDT (1058 GMT).

A series of parachutes will unfurl to slow the ship's speed starting around 7:06 a.m. EDT (1106 GMT). After descending under a bright orange and white main chute, the Soyuz landing craft, measuring around 7 feet (2.1 meters) long and 7 feet wide, will ignite six "soft landing" rockets to cushion the jarring touchdown near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, at 7:21 a.m. EDT (1121 GMT; 5:21 p.m. local time in Kazakhstan).

Russian ground crews in helicopters and all-terrain vehicles will be on standby in the landing zone to pull the three-man crew from the spacecraft and conduct initial medical examinations.

Kimbrough, Ryzhikov and Borisenko launched Oct. 19 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, and they will have logged 173 days in space at the time of Monday's landing.

During their expedition, the trio will have orbited Earth 2,768 times and traveled nearly 73.3 million miles. Station crew members conducted four spacewalks and welcomed five visiting vehicles during their time aboard the outpost.

Kimbrough handed over command of the International Space Station to NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson in a ceremony Sunday.

"We've had a great time up here," Kimbrough said. "It's been an amazing experience for almost six months now for Andrey, Sergey and I."

"It's really neat to be part of something this big, something bigger than ourselves, for one, but even bigger than a nation," said Kimbrough, a native of Killeen, Texas. "We get the ability up here to interact with things that actually benefit all of humanity."

Kimbrough and Borisenko are wrapping up their second space missions, and Ryzhikov is concluding his first expedition in orbit.

The undocking of the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft Monday will mark the official start of the Expedition 51 mission aboard the station.

Whitson, from Mt. Ayr, Iowa, is the first woman to command the International Space Station twice and NASA's most experienced female astronaut. She launched in November with French-born astronaut Thomas Pesquest and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy.

Pesquet and Novitskiy are due to return to Earth in early June, while NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian space agency recently agreed to extend Whitson's stay on the space station until early September, setting up her mission to last more than nine months, the longest-duration spaceflight by a woman in history.

The three crew members remaining on the space station after Monday's undocking will be joined April 20 by Russian Soyuz commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA astronaut Jack Fischer to boost the crew size back to five.

Russia is downsizing its crew complement on the space station this year to save money and training time until more cosmonauts are needed on the outpost after the arrival a long-delayed Russian science lab next year.

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ISS Updates‏ @ISS101 34 мин. назад

Soyuz was powered up early today for a final control system test and communication checks with Mission Control.

ISS Updates‏ @ISS101 31 мин. назад

Communication checks between Soyuz & Mission Control Moscow are currently being performed by Sergei Ryzhikov.

ISS Updates‏ @ISS101 12 мин. назад

Soyuz hatch closure is planned in about one hour, final Soyuz systems initialization & comm setup is currently being worked by the crew.

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Пошла трансляция НАСА из российского ЦУПа

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ISS Updates‏ @ISS101 1 мин. назад

Sergei Ryzhikov & Andrei Borisenko removed quick release clamps that stabilize the structural interface between Soyuz & ISS.

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Вроде и ЦЭНКИ дало картинку