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A Soyuz Spacecraft Approaches the Space Station


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#81325 by @ 02.11.2005 00:00 - nach oben -
A Soyuz Spacecraft Approaches the Space Station

Explanation: Last month, a Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft docked with the International Space Station. The spacecraft was launched a few days earlier from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Pictured above, the approaching Soyuz spacecraft carried the new Expedition 12 crew to the Earth-orbiting International Space Station (ISS), as well as fee-paying spaceflight participant. The Expedition 12 crew is expected to stay on the ISS for about six months, while replacing the Expedition 11 crew who had been on the station for about six months themselves. About a week after this image was taken, the Expedition 11 crew returned to Earth in the Soyuz capsule, along with the spaceflight participant. The Expedition 12 crew will carry out repairs on the ISS, explore new methods of living in space, and conduct research in space including a kidney stone experiment.

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zorg.ch
#81332 by @ 02.11.2005 10:30 - nach oben -
KRASS.

Bei den Weltraumtouristen Dennis Tito (2001) und Mark Shuttleworth (2002) gab's, verständlicherweise und auch richtig, ein riesiges Medienecho. Habt Ihr über die 'normalen Massenprintmedien' mitbekommen, dass am 1. Oktober Dr. Greg Olsen, ein amerikanischer Wissenschaftler und Erfinder, mit einer Soyus-Kapsel auf die ISS geflogen ist? Ich nicht.

Der Weltraumtourismus kommt, langsam aber stetig.
zorg.ch
#81343 by @ 02.11.2005 14:04 - nach oben -
ich schon.
zorg.ch
#81496 by @ 03.11.2005 20:22 - nach oben -
Und wo?
zorg.ch
#81499 by @ 03.11.2005 21:18 - nach oben -
jo halt i de flimmerchischte. irgend esone news sendig oder so.