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Baikonur Space Center, Kazakhstan (UPI) Jun 13, 2010 Russian space officials moved a Soyuz-FG rocket to its launch pad Sunday in preparation for its flight to the International Space Station later this week. The rocket will carry cosmonaut Yuri Yurchihin and U.S. astronauts Shannon Walker and Douglas Wheelcock to the orbiting space station where they will join the current crew of two Russians and American Tracy Dyson. The spacecraft, dubbed TMA-19, will lift off from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. The RIA Novosti news agency said engineers had raised the space station's orbit by 2 ½ kilometers (1.6 miles) to get into position to dock with TMA-19.
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Russian Mission Control Raises ISS OrbitMoscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 09, 2010 Russia's Mission Control on Tuesday readjusted the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) raising it by 2.5 kilometers (1.6 miles), a Mission Control spokesman said. The readjustment was necessary to ensure the best conditions for the docking of the Soyuz TMA-19 manned spacecraft and the Progress M-06M space cargo ship. It was carried out in two stages with the help of thrusters of ... read more |
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