Tag: Expedition 35

“Planet Earth is Blue and There’s Nothing Left to Do” : ISS Sensation Hadfield Coming Back Home
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“Planet Earth is Blue and There’s Nothing Left to Do” : ISS Sensation Hadfield Coming Back Home

Canadian astronaut and Commander of Expedition 35 Chris Hadfield, is preparing to return to Earth this evening, along with fellow travelers American Tom Marshburn and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko.  Undocking is scheduled at 7:08 p.m. EDT, with de-orbit burn occurring at 9:37 and landing in Kazakhstan at 10:31 p.m. (8:31 a.m. local) This “expedition” may be one for the record books.  Chris Hadfield has […]

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7 Hours 52 Minutes
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7 Hours 52 Minutes

Seven hours and fifty minutes after a flawless liftoff from Baikonur at 2:42 AM Friday morning (local),  the three person crew aboard Expedition 35’s Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft opened the spacecraft’s hatch and entered the International Space Stations’s Poisk module.  The new record breaking fast ascent, which was accomplished in four orbits,  had been employed on three previous Progress resupply missions but this […]

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