 | Soyuz to the International Space Station April 7th 2007 Launch of the Soyouz at Baikonur on April 7th 2007 of the Expedition 15 crew with Charles Simonyi of Microsoft as passenger.(NASA TV) |
 | Soyuz Rocket Launches Space Station Expedition 17 Crew Commander Sergei Alexandrovich Volkov and cosmonaut Oleg Dmitrievich Kononenko of the 17th International Space Station crew launched in their Soyuz TMA-12 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7:16 a.m. EDT Tuesday to begin a six-month stay in space. With Volkov, a lieutenant colonel in the Russian Air Force, and Kononenko is spaceflight participant So-yeon Yi. She is a South Korean flying under contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency. |
 | Space Station Expedition 17 Soyuz Launch Day Activities Commander Sergei Alexandrovich Volkov and cosmonaut Oleg Dmitrievich Kononenko of the 17th International Space Station crew launched in their Soyuz TMA-12 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7:16 a.m. EDT Tuesday to begin a six-month stay in space. With Volkov, a lieutenant colonel in the Russian Air Force, and Kononenko is spaceflight participant So-yeon Yi. She is a South Korean flying under contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency. |
 | Expedition 17 Soyuz Docks With International Space Station VISIT: WWW.SPACEARIUM.COM - The soyuz spacecraft with the Expedition 17 crew od astronauts docked with the International Space Station today. Cosmonauts Volkov and Kononenko along with South Korean spaceflight participant So-yeon Yi docked at 8:57 a.m. EDT this morning. For more information and videos, visit The Spacearium, spacearium.com |
 | SOYUZ TMA 9 LAUNCH / EXP. 14 / ANOUSHEH Expedition 14 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin are scheduled to arrive at the station at 1:24 a.m. Wednesday. Flying to the station with them will be American Anousheh Ansari, the first female spaceflight participant to visit the orbiting laboratory. She is flying under contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency. Lopez-Alegria and Tyurin will replace Expedition 13 Commander Pavel Vinogradov and NASA Science Officer Jeff Williams, who are wrapping up a six-month stay on the station. European Space Agency Astronaut Thomas Reiter will remain on the station and join Expedition 14. |
 | SOYUZ TMA-10 LAUNCH EXP. 15/ SIMONYI Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and cosmonaut Oleg Kotov of the 15th International Space Station crew launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1:31 p.m. EDT Saturday to begin a six-month stay aboard. With Yurchikhin and Kotov on their Soyuz TMA-10 is Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi, an American flying under contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency. He will return to Earth with Expedition 14, Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin, on April 20. Expedition 14 launched to the station last Sept. 18. Expedition 15's spacecraft is scheduled to dock at the station a little after 3 p.m. Monday. |
 | Soyuz TMA-11 Launch ISS Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson, Flight Engineer Yuri Malenchenko and spaceflight participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor are in orbit and on their way to the International Space Station. Their Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 10th October 2007 at 9:22 a.m. EDT and entered orbit less than 10 minutes later. They will dock to the Earth-facing port of the station's Zarya module on 12th October about 10:52 a.m. The Expedition 15 crew has been busy readying the station as they prepare to greet their replacements and Malaysian guest. Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov set up a work space in the Zvezda service module that will allow the visiting Shukor to perform several experiments over nine days. Flight Engineer Clay Anderson also resized U.S. spacesuits for Whitson and Malenchenko for an upcoming spacewalk. The current station crew also held space-to-ground teleconferences with their Expedition 16 counterparts to assist with handover activities. Yurchikhin and Kotov are scheduled to leave the station on 21st October officially ending the Expedition 15 increment. Shukor will go home with the two cosmonauts. Anderson will remain onboard with Expedition 16 and return to Earth aboard Discovery on its STS-120 mission. |
 | Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft docked at the ISS With them was American Anousheh Ansari, the first female spaceflight participant to visit the station. She is flying under contract with the NASA - 14th Station Crew Docks with Space Station http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition14/exp14_advancer.html |
 | Expedition 16 (Soyuz TMA-11) launch Expedition 16 is the 16th expedition to the International Space Station (ISS).The first two crew members, Yuri Malenchenko and Peggy Whitson, launched on October 10, 2007, aboard Soyuz TMA-11, and were joined by spaceflight participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, the first Malaysian in space. |
 | SOYUZ TMA-10 DOCK ISS / EXP. 15 / SIMONYI Expedition 15 arrived at the International Space Station at 3:10 p.m. EDT Monday. They greeted the Expedition 14 crew shortly after opening their hatches at 4:30 p.m. Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin, Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov and Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi docked in their Soyuz spacecraft two days after launching from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. |
 | Soyuz TMA-12 launches Tuesday, April 8, 2008 Launch of an earlier Soyuz mission. At 11:16 GMT this morning, a Russian Soyuz-FG carrier rocket launched from Site 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with the Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft, on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Aboard were three cosmonauts; Russians Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko, and South Korean Yi So-yeon. Volkov and Kononenko make up the ISS Expedition 17 crew, whilst Yi is flying as a Spaceflight Participant through the Korean Astronaut Programme. All three are making their first trip into space. Two major firsts are being achieved on this mission. Yi is the first South Korean to fly in space, and Volkov is the first second-generation space traveller, his father Alexander Volkov having flown three space missions, Soyuz T-14, TM-7 and TM-13, spending over a year aboard the Mir space station across the three missions. Soyuz TMA-12 successfully separated from the carrier rocket about nine minutes after lift off. Docking with the Pirs module of International Space Station is planned for Thursday at 13:00 GMT. In preparation for docking, the Progress M-63 cargo spacecraft undocked at 08:30 GMT yesterday morning, and was de-orbited to burn-up in the Earth's atmosphere at 11:50. The TMA-12 spacecraft will remain docked to the ISS as an emergency escape capsule until October, when it will be used to return the Expedition 17 crew to Earth, along with space tourist Richard Garriott. Yi So-yeon will return to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-11, which is scheduled to land in just under a fortnight's time. This is the 99th manned flight of the Soyuz programme, the first of which was launched in late April 1967, and the 107th manned flight of the Soviet/Russian space programme. It is the fifteenth orbital, and third manned launch of 2008. |
 | International Space Station Walk CHEN: Some interesting video to show you. Let's take a look at the most recent space walk at the International Space Station. STORY: Two cosmonauts floated outside the International Space Station to remove a so-called explosive bolt from the Soyuz capsule. The bolt is one of several that connects the Soyuz to an equipment module. The problem---its suspected to be the reason behind two consecutive troubled landings in similar Soyuz descent modules and the Russian Space Agency wants to avoid a third incident. It's a daring mission for Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenk, both on their first spacewalk. The bolt has an explosive blast as strong as an M-80 firework. The cosmonauts must disconnect the bolt and seal it in a blast proof steel canister and bring it inside the Space Station. They will then take it back with them when they return to earth at the end of their six month mission in October. |
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