Sunday, December 26, 2010

Russian manned spacecraft successfully docking with the international space station

Russian ground-based flight control center 17 pm news that Russian and U.S. astronauts carrying three Russian "coalition TMA-20" spacecraft was the day Moscow time 23:12 (Beijing time at 4:12 on the 18th) and the International Space Station successful docking.
 
Russian 24-hour news station broadcast the spacecraft docking with the space station, docking is done automatically in the form. The three astronauts on the spacecraft are Russian Dmitry hole la quarter Akayev, from Italy, European Space Agency astronaut Catherine Coleman Paul and Americans. Kong De quarter Aliyev for the spacecraft commander, Neisiboli and Coleman with the flight engineer for the spacecraft.
After docking, "Union" docking module astronauts need to pressure seal and a series of checks. As planned, the astronauts will open in the early morning of 18 and entered the space station airlock door, and is currently working there cards out in the Russian cosmonaut Alexander, Chica and U.S. astronaut Scott * Kelly join.
"Union TMA-20" spacecraft was launched on the 15th. Russian ground control center said the flight, three astronauts during a two-day flight to feel good contact with the ground stability.
Under the plan, their working hours on the International Space Station was 152 days. They will bid farewell in mid-March 2011 are currently three astronauts on the space station, and ushered in early April under the new batch of astronauts. They will also host two Russian "Progress" was cargo spacecraft, a European ATV cargo ship, a Japanese cargo ship HTV-2 and the last two U.S. space shuttle mission. Aliyev also plans to Della quarter hole and Scriven two spacewalks to complete Wavelet card.

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