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Crew Moves Station Soyuz Capsule To New Docking Port
Houston TX (SPX) Nov 30, 2004 It was a short trip, considering they were moving at about five miles a second. Space Station crewmembers, Soyuz Commander Salizhan Sharipov and Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao, flew their Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft from the Pirs Docking Compartment to a docking port about 45 feet away on the Zarya module. The move early Monday was made to prepare for two spacewalks from Pirs early next year. Sharipov and Chiao undocked their Soyuz from Pirs at 4:29 a.m. EST. After backing about 100 feet from the Station, they flew the Soyuz forward about 45 feet to a point below the nadir docking port of Zarya. They rotated the Soyuz to align it with the new docking port, then slowly maneuvered it toward Zarya. They docked the Soyuz at 4:53 a.m. During the short relocation, the Station had gone almost a third of the way around the Earth at its orbital velocity of 17,500 mph. In preparation for the Soyuz relocation, Chiao and Sharipov had configured the Station to operate without a crew, in the unlikely event that they were unable to redock the Soyuz. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links ISS at NASA SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Space Station News at Space-Travel.Com
NASA Had No Choice But To Buy Soyuz Flights
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 09, 2006NASA's announcement last week that it will pay Roskosmos $43.6 million for a round-trip ride to the International Space Station this spring, and an equivalent figure for an as-yet-undetermined number of future flights to the station until 2012, represents the agency's acknowledgment that it had no alternative. |
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