Category : ISS
October 27, 2014

Progress M-24M cargo vehicle undocked from the ISS and will be flying in space up to November 20. During the flight “Reflection” scientific experiment will be conducted onboard the vehicle.

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October 27, 2014

Today on October 27. At 04:30, Moscow time Soyuz 2.1a booster with Progress M-25M cargo vehicle was rolled out to #31 launchpad and installed with service truss attached to it. Russian space industry launching crews started working in accordance with the first launching day schedule.

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October 23, 2014

Russian Cosmonauts ISS-41/42 mission commander Maksim Surayev and ISS-41/42 flight engineer Alexander Samokutyayev successfully performed the spacewalk and got beck to the ISS. The spacewalk lasted for 3 hours and 41 minutes. During the spacewalk Roscosmos cosmonauts demounted RK 21-8 radiometric complex , demounted 2ASF1-1 and 2ASF1-2 antennas from Poisk small research module and took samples from Pirs module hatch illuminator in the framework of Test space experiment. Besides the cosmonauts took pictures of the ISS outer surface milti layer isolation. The hatch of Pirs docking compartment was closed on October 22,2014 at 21.05, Moscow time. This spacewalk was the second one in the space career of both cosmonauts. Now Maksim Surayev’s total time of extravehicular activities amounts to 9 hours 25 minutes, while Alexander Samokutyayev’s – 10 hours 04 minutes.

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October 21, 2014

ISS-41/42 mission commander Maksim Surayev and flight engineer Alexander Samokutyayev will perform the spacewalk on October 22, 2014 in accordance with the ISS flight schedule.

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October 17, 2014

On October 16 Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre saw General Medical Board meeting that analyzed the data gained in the result of Russian ISS-42/43 mission crew medical examination for the period of preflight preparation

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October 8, 2014

On October 7, 2014, Reid Wiseman (NASA) and Alexander Gerst (ESA) successfully performed the spacewalk. They finished their EVA activities and returned to the ISS at 18:43 UTC (22:43, Moscow time).

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October 6, 2014

On Saturday Progress M-27 cargo vehicle was delivered to Baikonur spaceport. Today RSC Energia and Yuzhny Space Centre specialists unloaded the vehicle and installed it onto the service pad in the integration building of 24 launchpad of the spaceport. The specialists will examine the vehicle and conduct preservation works.

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October 1, 2014

Russian space industry specialists work at Baikonur spaceport on ISS program implementation. At the present time the specialists accomplish Soyuz TMA-15M manned spacecraft and Progress M-25M cargo vehicle for the future launches.

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September 26, 2014

At 06:11, Moscow time, on September 26 Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft launched from Baikonur spaceport at 00:25, Moscow time, successfully docked with the ISS.

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September 25, 2014

Yesterday the Meeting of State Commission headed by Oleg Ostapenko took place at # 17 pad of Baikonur spaceport in “Cosmonaut” complex. State Commission approved the following composition of Soyuz TMA-14M manned spacecraft main crewas: crew commander – Alexander Samokutyayev ( Roscosmos), first flight engineer – Elena Serova ( Roscosmos), second flight engineer Barry Wilmore (NASA).

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