New Expedition 37 Crew Launches to Space Station
The Soyuz TMA-10M rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
on Sept. 25 at 4:58 p.m. EDT (2:58 a.m. Kazakh time Sept. 26) carrying
Expedition 37 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov, NASA Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins
and Russian Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy to the International Space
Station.
Image Credit: NASA/Carla
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New Station Crew Ready for Launch
Expedition 37 NASA Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins, far left, Soyuz Commander
Oleg Kotov and Russian Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy, far right, share a
laugh at a press conference held at the Cosmonaut Hotel, on Tuesday, Sept. 24,
2013, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for Sept.
26 and will send Hopkings, Kotov, Ryazanski on a five and a half-month mission
aboard the International Space Station.
Image Credit: NASA/Carla
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New Crew Heads to International Space Station
Three new Expedition 37 crew members lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
in Kazakhstan at 4:58 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 25 (2:58 a.m. Kazakh time,
Thursday, Sept. 26) on a six-hour trek to the International Space Station.
Expedition 37 Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins of NASA and Soyuz Commander
Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space
Agency (Roscosmos) are scheduled to dock their Soyuz spacecraft to the orbiting
laboratory's Poisk module at 10:48 p.m. EDT. NASA Television will provide live
coverage of the rendezvous and docking beginning at 10 p.m.
The crew is scheduled to open the hatches between the Soyuz spacecraft and the space station at about 12:25 a.m. Thursday Sept. 26. Hatch opening coverage begins on NASA TV at midnight.
Hopkins, Kotov and Ryazanskiy will be greeted by three Expedition 37 crew members who have been aboard the space station since late May: Commander Fyodor Yurchikin of Rosmosmos and Flight Engineers Karen Nyberg of NASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency.
The new crew will remain aboard the station until mid-March. Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano will return to Earth Nov. 11.
Expedition 37 will add several critical scientific investigations to the more than 1,600 experiments that have taken place so far aboard the space station. Several new investigations will focus on human health and human physiology. The crew will examine the effects of long-term exposure to microgravity on the immune system, provide metabolic profiles of the astronauts and collect data to help scientists understand how the human body changes shape in space. The crew also will conduct 11 investigations from the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program on antibacterial resistance, hydroponics, cellular division, microgravity oxidation, seed germination, photosynthesis and the food making process in microgravity.
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The crew is scheduled to open the hatches between the Soyuz spacecraft and the space station at about 12:25 a.m. Thursday Sept. 26. Hatch opening coverage begins on NASA TV at midnight.
Hopkins, Kotov and Ryazanskiy will be greeted by three Expedition 37 crew members who have been aboard the space station since late May: Commander Fyodor Yurchikin of Rosmosmos and Flight Engineers Karen Nyberg of NASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency.
The new crew will remain aboard the station until mid-March. Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano will return to Earth Nov. 11.
Expedition 37 will add several critical scientific investigations to the more than 1,600 experiments that have taken place so far aboard the space station. Several new investigations will focus on human health and human physiology. The crew will examine the effects of long-term exposure to microgravity on the immune system, provide metabolic profiles of the astronauts and collect data to help scientists understand how the human body changes shape in space. The crew also will conduct 11 investigations from the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program on antibacterial resistance, hydroponics, cellular division, microgravity oxidation, seed germination, photosynthesis and the food making process in microgravity.
For information on the International Space Station, visit:
To follow Twitter updates from Expedition 37 astronauts, visit:
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Guillermo Gonzalo Sánchez Achutegui
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