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Subj: Soyuz Preparations Continue for Three Ham Crew Launch to ISS
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 352.07
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
December 18, 2011
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-352.07
NASA astronaut Don Pettit KD5MDT, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko
RN3DX and Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers, PI9ISS continue preparations
for their planned Soyuz launch to the ISS on on December 21 at 0816
EST (1316 GMT). The SpaceFlightNow web site posted a photo album of
the ISS Expedition 30 crew this week during inspections and fit checks
in the seats: http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp30/111209fitcheck/
The European Space Agency has released a video of Andre Kuipers'
mission which can be viewed at:
http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp30/kuipers.html
The Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft will be encapsulated in the aerodynamic
shroud and then mated to its rocket booster next week in preparation
for rollout to the launch pad on December 19. After launch the Soyuz
will fly a two-day trek to rendezvous with the station for a planned
automated docking December 23 at 1020 EST (1520 GMT).
These three hams are headed for a half-year mission aboard the ISS as
members of Expeditions 30 and 31.
[ANS thanks SpaceFlightNow.com for the above information]
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