Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 03-16-2016 03:04 PM
Soyuz TMA-20M poised for launch
Soyuz TMA-20M commander Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, along with flight engineers Jeff Williams of NASA and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos are set to launch to the International Space Station on Friday (March 18) at 4:26 p.m. CDT (2126 GMT; 3:26 a.m. Kazakh time) from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov
They will dock their Soyuz to the station's Poisk module at 10:12 p.m. CDT (0312 GMT) following a four-orbit rendezvous.
About two hours later, the hatches between the Soyuz and station will open and Ovchinin, Williams and Skripochka will be greeted by ISS Expedition 47 commander Yuri Malenchenko and flight engineers Tim Kopra and Tim Peake.
Ovchinin, Williams and Skripochka will stay aboard the space station through early September.
On Wednesday (March 16), the Soyuz-FG rocket topped with Soyuz TMA-20M was rolled out to the launch pad by train and erected into position.
Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts lifted off to the International Space Station on Friday (March 18), flying aboard the last of Russia's Soyuz TMA-M series spacecraft.
Jeff Williams of NASA, together with Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos launched on board Soyuz TMA-20M from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 5:26 p.m. EDT (2126 GMT or 3:26 a.m. local time March 19).
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 03-18-2016 10:12 PM
Soyuz TMA-20M docks to space station
Russia's Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft docked to the Poisk module at the International Space Station on Friday (March 18) at 10:09:55 p.m. CDT (0309 GMT March 19) as the two vehicles were 253 miles above the Earth, over the western coast of Peru.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 09-06-2016 05:58 PM
Soyuz TMA-20M undocks from space station
After 172 days on the International Space Station, Jeff Williams, Oleg Skripochka and Alexey Ovchinin, aboard Soyuz TMA-20M, undocked on Tuesday (Sept. 6) at 4:51 p.m. CDT (2151 GMT), beginning their return to Earth.
The Soyuz will perform a four-minute, 41-second deorbit burn at 7:21 p.m. CDT (0021 GMT). The crew is scheduled to touch down at about 8:13 p.m. CDT (0113 GMT) southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
NASA astronaut Jeff Williams safely landed back on Earth on Tuesday night (Sept. 6), setting a new, potentially long-lasting record for the most time spent in space by an American.
Williams, along with Oleg Skripochka and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, departed the International Space Station at 5:51 p.m. EDT (2151 GMT) and touched down three hours later on the steppe of Kazakhstan aboard Russia's Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft.
At the point of their landing, at 9:13 p.m. EDT (0113 GMT or 7:13 a.m. local time, Sept. 7), Williams added 172 days to his four-spaceflight career, bringing his total time off the planet to 534 days, 2 hours and 48 minutes.
MCroft04 Member
Posts: 1634 From: Smithfield, Me, USA Registered: Mar 2005
posted 09-06-2016 09:46 PM
Amazing!
MSS Member
Posts: 633 From: Poland Registered: May 2003
posted 09-08-2016 10:25 AM
This was the 25th direct return for USOS crewmember.
@NASA_Astronauts Welcome home @Astro_Jeff! The Houston team is grateful for your tremendous work during 172 days on @Space_Station.
posted 03-16-2016 03:04 PM
advertisement