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    Soyuz Rolls Out to Pad as Station Crew Prepares to Double in Size

    Soyuz TMA-15M

    A trio of new Expedition 42 crew members is in its final preparations before Sunday’s launch and six-hour ride aboard a Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft to the International Space Station. The rocket with the Soyuz capsule rolled out to the launch pad Friday morning at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. › Read about live NASA TV …

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    Soyuz Preps for Rollout as Station Crew Works Array of Science

    Elena Serova

    A trio of new Expedition 42 crew members is in its final preparations before Sunday’s launch and six-hour ride aboard a Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft to the International Space Station. The rocket with the Soyuz capsule attached will roll out to the launch pad Friday morning at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. › Read about live …

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    Botany Studies and Russian Maintenance as Soyuz Launch Nears

    Expedition 42/43

    Commander Barry Wilmore worked in the Japanese Kibo lab module on the Aniso Tubule botany experiment that studies how roots adapt to gravity. After lunch, Wilmore went back to more hardware replacement work on the Combustion Integrated Rack that he began Tuesday. At the end of the day he configured a maintenance work area for …

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    Routine Maintenance on Station While Ground Crew Relaxes

    Wilmore works on CIR

    Commander Barry Wilmore worked throughout the day Tuesday in the Destiny laboratory’s Combustion Integrated Rack replacing hardware that fuels experiments. Afterward, he drained a waste water tank in the Tranquility node then moved on to a Health Maintenance System test. › Read more about the Combustion Integrated Rack Flight Engineer Alexander Samokutyaev replaced a battery …

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    3D Printer Installed as Station Preps for New Trio

    Wilmore Installs 3D Printer

    Commander Barry Wilmore worked throughout Monday to install a 3D printer to get the International Space Station and future crews ready for self-sufficiency. Wilmore will work to calibrate the printer and set up a demonstration of the additive manufacturing technology. › Read about 3D Printing In Zero-G His fellow crew members, Flight Engineers Alexander Samokutyaev …

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    Botany Science and Network Reconfigs as Future Crew Relaxes

    Barry Wilmore in Destiny

    The three orbiting Expedition 42 crew members are wrapping up the work week with science, cargo transfers and maintenance. Meanwhile, another crew is on the ground awaiting its launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Commander Barry Wilmore worked in the Kibo laboratory checking out the lab module’s robotic arm. He was also in the …

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    Station Trio Works Med Science as New Crew Preps for Launch

    Cosmonauts Elena Serova and Alexander Samokutyaev

    The International Space Station is currently occupied by a trio of Expedition 42 crew members consisting of Commander Barry Wilmore and Flight Engineers Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova. They are waiting for three more crew members, Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov and Flight Engineers Terry Virts and Samantha Cristoforetti, who are counting down to a launch …

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    Station Avoids Satellite Debris After ATV-5 Fires Engines

    ISS Configuration as of Nov, 9, 2014

    The International Space Station’s “Georges Lemaitre” Automated Transfer Vehicle fired its engines for 3 minutes, 25 seconds at 6:35 a.m. Central time today in a Pre-Determined Debris Avoidance Maneuver (PDAM) to move well away from a small piece of debris from a spent Chinese satellite (Yaogan 12) launched in November 2011. The maneuver, which was …

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    Expedition 42 Crew Takes a Day Off After Colleagues Arrive Home Safely

    What is now the Expedition 42 crew is enjoying a pure off duty day today following the departure of Maxim Suraev, Reid Wiseman and Alexander Gerst, who landed at 10:58 p.m. EST Sunday night in their Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft northeast of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan. The trio is returning to their respective homes. The current crew on the …

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    Expedition 41 Lands Safely in Kazakhstan

    Soyuz Landing

    Expedition 41 Flight Engineers Reid Wiseman of NASA, Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency and Commander Maxim Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) landed their Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft in Kazakhstan at 10:58 p.m. EST. The trio arrived at the International Space Station on May 29, and spent more than five months conducting …

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