Hi My Friends: A VUELO DE UN QUINDE EL BLOG., NASA Flight Engineer Joseph Acaba, Russian Soyuz Commander Gennady
Padalka and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin blasted off for the
International Space Station at 10:01 p.m. CDT Monday, May 14 (9:01 a.m.
Baikonur time on May 15), from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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The
Soyuz rocket is seen in the monitor of a video camera moments before
Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka and flight engineers Joseph Acaba and
Sergei Revin arrived to board the rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan for their flight to join their crew mates already aboard the
International Space Station. The craft successfully launched at 11:01
p.m. EDT, Monday, May 14, 2012.
The trio will dock to the
station’s Poisk Mini-Research Module at 12:38 a.m. Thursday, bringing
Expedition 31 to its full six-member complement.
Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Expedition 31 Trio Blasts Off for International Space Station
HOUSTON
-- NASA Flight Engineer Joseph Acaba, Russian Soyuz Commander Gennady
Padalka and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin blasted off for the
International Space Station at 10:01 p.m. CDT Monday, May 14 (9:01 a.m.
Baikonur time on May 15), from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Acaba,
Padalka and Revin are scheduled to dock their Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft
to the Poisk module of the station at 11:38 p.m. Wednesday, May 16. They
will join Expedition 31 Commander Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal
Space Agency and Flight Engineers Don Pettit of NASA and André Kuipers
of the European Space Agency, who have been aboard the orbiting
laboratory since Dec. 23, 2011. The six astronauts and cosmonauts will
work together for about two months.
NASA Television will
provide live docking coverage beginning at 11 p.m. on May 16. Hatch
opening and welcoming ceremonies will occur about three hours later on
May 17.
Upon arrival, Acaba, Padalka and Revin will become
members of the Expedition 31 crew, restoring the station's crew
complement to six and continuing scientific research aboard the station.
Pettit, Kononeko and Kuipers are scheduled to return to Earth
on July 1. Acaba, Padalka and Revin will return home in mid-September.
Also
on board with the crew was a small "Smokey Bear" plush toy serving as
the traditional Soyuz "talisman." Smokey Bear is the U.S. national
symbol for wildfire prevention. Prior to the flight, Acaba explained he
proposed flying Smokey Bear in an effort to raise awareness of
human-caused wildfires. Acaba, an avid outdoorsman, holds two degrees in
geology and served as an environmental education awareness promoter
while in the U.S. Peace Corps.
For NASA TV streaming video, schedule and downlink information, visit:
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For more information about Expedition 31 and the space station, visit:
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