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Topic: Soyuz TMA-8 lands with ISS Expedition 13, Ansari
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-28-2006 09:56 PM
   
After six months aboard the International Space Station that included arrival of two space shuttle missions, resumption of construction of the orbiting laboratory and the restoration of a three-member crew, Expedition 13 landed at 9:13 p.m. EDT in the steppes of Kazakhstan.Commander Pavel Vinogradov and NASA station science officer Jeff Williams landed in their Soyuz TMA 8 spacecraft about 50 miles northeast of Arkalyk. Russian recovery forces and NASA officials arrived at the site shortly after the spacecraft touched down. The Soyuz undocked from the space station at 5:53 p.m. EDT. The crew will spend several weeks in Star City, near Moscow, for debriefing and medical examinations. With Williams and Vinogradov was Spaceflight Participant Anousheh Ansari, who flew to the station with the Expedition 14 crew and spent eight days there. The American businesswoman went to the station under a contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency. During their mission, which launched March 29, Vinogradov and Williams were joined by Thomas Reiter, a European Space Agency astronaut from Germany. He became the first non-Russian, non-U.S. long-duration station crew member. He will remain aboard as part of the Expedition 14 crew until December when he returns to Earth on the next space shuttle flight. Two successful spacewalks were conducted during Expedition 13. The first was by Vinogradov and Williams in Russian spacesuits and the second by Williams and Reiter in U.S. spacesuits. Vinogradov and Williams welcomed Space Shuttle Discovery astronauts and Reiter during the STS-121 mission to the station in July. In September Space Shuttle Atlantis' crew on the STS-115 mission brought and installed the station's integrated P3/P4 truss segments. |
MCroft04
Member Posts: 1634
From: Smithfield, Me, USA
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted 09-29-2006 02:05 AM
I'm traveling but haven't seen any news on the landing; I guess Anousheh Ansari didn't pass out. Too bad (kidding of course). |
1202 Alarm
Member Posts: 436
From: Switzerland & France
Registered: Nov 2003
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posted 09-29-2006 03:11 AM
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Originally posted by MCroft04:
I'm traveling but haven't seen any news on the landing; I guess Anousheh Ansari didn't pass out. Too bad (kidding of course).
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ejectr
Member Posts: 1751
From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 09-29-2006 05:51 AM
No one passed out???!!!Then I guess this event isn't news worthy and we'll see nothing of it in the usual media. Darn....I was hoping it would be more interesting than just an ordinary, hot firey, bone crushing, life threatening descent through the earth's atmosphere. |
Steve Procter
Member Posts: 1031
From: Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted 09-29-2006 08:36 AM
The lunchtime news here in the UK did a piece a few minutes long showing the Soyuz launch, Ansari on the ISS, farewells with the resident crew and the return to earth.Scenes in the Russian mission control showing staff standing and applauding after the landing and then film of the crew being removed from the spaccraft. Ansari sitting with some flowers whilst being attended to and a kiss from the husband!! I guess that's more than you got across the pond!! Steve |
Kirsten
Member Posts: 536
From: Delft, Netherlands
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 09-29-2006 01:23 PM
In this morning's Dutch news, they brought an item about Richard Branson's new thingy for the future, with the remark that nowadays you'd rather take a Soyuz for 20 million euro and that Ansari had landed last night. |
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