Tag: fast ascent

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 […]

Posted in: Soyuz, Space Stations
Soyuz Crew Poised for Fast Ascent
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Soyuz Crew Poised for Fast Ascent

At 3:43 PM CST today, (2:43AM Friday local) a Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft is scheduled to blast off from the Baikonur space launch facility in Kazakhstan on what will be a record-breaking flight.  For the first time ever, the crew aboard the craft will be making a fast ascent which will put the Soyuz  in position to dock with […]

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