Olympic Torch Arrives At International Space Station
The production pool of a Soyuz spacecraft has brought the Sochi 2014 Olympic torch on cottage the Conglomerate Relax Duration. Immediately, the Olympic blister essence be engaged for a spacewalk for the first time in history. A new trio of Lose your footing 38 flight engineers opened the Soyuz and station hatches at 7:44 a.m. EST Thursday. They docked to the Rassvet docking sect at 5:27 a.m. after stimulating from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 11:14 p.m. Wednesday aboard a Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft. The Russian, American and Japanese members of the inward bound assignment, hugged later than the six tenant ISS pool as they short of their way passing through the airlock, mark the adjoin pool at the station to nine, the most inhabit aboard the ISS seeing that the last NASA shuttle blocked operations two existence ago.

The sunny group, led by authorized cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, who has served two missions on the ISS, standard compliments from officials and population at their respective journey centers.

"It was a countless errand and we're bright to be trendy," supposed various recruit, US astronaut Injure Mastracchio.

This essence be the first time seeing that October 2009 that nine inhabit have resided on the station without the specter of a space shuttle. However, straight four days latter the station people essence say see you later to Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano, all Lose your footing 37 pool members, just the once they undock in the Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft and land in Kazakhstan about 3-1/2 hours latter.

Having the status of the Lose your footing 37 trio proceeds rest this Sunday they essence have over a 5-1/2 month rest in space. The station's newest Lose your footing 38 trio essence live and work in space until May 2014.

The Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft later than Earth in the data is straight moments out cold from docking to the Rassvet sequence. Model Credit: NASA TV

Lose your footing 38 legitimately begins just the once the home-bound trio undocks. Kotov essence circle station chief officer for the further time seeing that Lose your footing 23 in 2010. Staying postponed are qualified station people Mikhail Tyurin and Koichi Wakata; Injure Mastracchio, a qualified of three shuttle missions; and Mike Hopkins and Sergey Ryazanskiy, who are apiece on their first missions.

All nine pool members essence show in a for all pool news conference Friday Nov. 8 at 8:50 a.m. wearing their very busy four days calm. The pool essence talk about the approach 15th celebration of the space station's construction (the station has been until the end of time hard-working for 13 existence).

They essence afterward consult the spacewalk that takes fix the very neighboring day just the once Kotov and Ryazanskiy cleave to the Olympic torch outward the station. The torch, delivered by Lose your footing 38 and frequent rest later than Lose your footing 37, essence light the blister at the room of the 2014 Frost Olympic Take the part of in Sochi, Russia.

Credit: NASA, rt.com


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