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PHOTO: NASA Short flight to ISS. Space Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft docked to the ISS in just six hours after starting from Baikonur. Before the flight took at least two days, noted in Roscosmos. Soyuz with the new ISS crew took off at 00:43 Moscow time from the launch site of the site number 1 Baikonur. The ship docked with the International Space Station at 06:28 Moscow time. “The docking was carried out by commands from the Earth at the estimated time, in automatic mode “, – quotes RIA” News “representative Roscosmos.
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The spacecraft, as explained in the space agency, first performed short-haul flight to the ISS, having completed only four turns around the Earth instead of the usual 30. Thanks to this, the flight time decreased by more than eight times. A few hours later the crew ISS, which includes Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, NASA astronaut Thomas Mashburn and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, open the hatches and meet with colleagues who arrived at the station – Russians Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin, as well as American Christopher Cassidy.
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The new crew is waiting for an extensive scientific program, which consists of them 42 experiments. In addition, the astronauts and astronaut will meet three Russian Progress trucks and a European transport ship ATV-4. Planned by the crew and four exits into outer space. During one of them, you will need to install on ISS Earth Disaster Prediction System. Will end expedition after 168 days. Such short-haul flights to The ISS will continue to be successfully implemented.
Sergey BOBCHINSKIY
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