Keep the shuttle flying: Fwd: Soyuz TMA-09M on pad at Baikonur

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From: "Gary Johnson" <gjohnson144@comcast.net>
Date: May 26, 2013 1:57:06 PM GMT-06:00
To: "Gary Johnson" <gjohnson144@comcast.net>
Subject: FW: Soyuz TMA-09M on pad at Baikonur

Space rocket "Soyuz-FG" with TPK "Soyuz TMA-09M" taken out to the launch pad
26.05.2013 ::

     At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of a space rocket (RCN) "Soyuz-FG", dedicated to the orbit of manned spacecraft (WPK) "Soyuz TMA-09M."
      In accordance with the decision of the State Commission at 5:00 am Moscow time launch vehicle was removed from the assembly and test facility area 112 spaceport, where her training was conducted at the processing facility. Next, a special train with RCN proceeded to the launch complex area 1 ("Gagarin's Start"), where specialists of Russian Federal Space Agency carried out the fitting operations in the RCN starting system.
After starting service information farms calculations transgressed to work on the program of the first start of the day.
      Start ILV "Soyuz-FG" - "Soyuz TMA-09M" to the crew 36/37-y long-duration mission to the International Space Station is scheduled for 00.31 MSK 29 May 2013

       Press Service of the Russian Federal Space Agency

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At the Baikonur Cosmodrome held general assembly ILV "Soyuz-FG" with TPK "Soyuz TMA-09M"
25.05.2013 ::

At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of the crew on the International Space Station.
May 25, assembly and testing site 112 spaceport staff calculations of rocket-space industry Russia held general assembly Launch Vehicle (ILV) "Soyuz-FG". At the first stage the head part ("Soyuz TMA-09M" under the fairing) was docked to the third stage of the launch vehicle (LV). Then the nose fairing had a dock of the emergency rescue of astronauts. Completion of works was docked resulting assembly to the "package" of the first and second stages of the launch vehicle.
On Sunday at the Baikonur space rocket scheduled transportation to the launch complex area 1 ("Gagarin's Start").
Launch of a space rocket "Soyuz-FG" with transport manned spacecraft "Soyuz TMA-09M" and the crew on board is scheduled for 00.31 MSK on May 29.
Basically crew - Fyodor Yurchikhin (Roscosmos), Luke Parmitano (ESA), Karen Nyberg (NASA). Their backups - Mikhail Tyurin (Roscosmos), Rick Mastracchio (NASA) and Koichi Wakata (JAXA).

Press Service of the Russian Federal Space Agency

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May 24, 2013.
A check inspection of the SC Soyuz TMA-09M was performed
At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-09M transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.
In the assembly/test building primary (Fyodor Yurchikhin (Roscosmos, Russia), LucaParmitano (ESA, Italy) and Karen Nyberg (NASA, USA)) and backup (Mikhail Tyurin(Roscosmos, Russia), Rick Mastraccio (NASA, USA) and Koichi Wakata (JAXA, Japan)) crews of the Soyuz TMA-09M transportation spacecraft made a check inspection of the spacecraft in the launch configuration and got acquainted with equipment to be delivered and returned to the ground.


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May 24, 2013.
Orbital module of the LV Soyuz-FG with SC Soyuz TMA-09M was transported for the general integration with LV
At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-09M transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.
Orbital module of the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle, containing the Soyuz TMA-09M manned spacecraft was transported from the spacecraft processing facility for the general integration with LV.


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LV Soyuz general integration is completed
May 25, 2013.
At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-09M transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.

In the LV Integration and Checkout Facility, the basic integration of the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle with the upper composite has been completed.

May 25, 2013.
LV Soyuz general integration is completed
At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-09M transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.
In the LV Integration and Checkout Facility, the basic integration of the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle with the upper composite has been completed.

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Meetings of the Technical management and State commission were held
May 25, 2013.
At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-09M transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.

Meetings of the Technical management under the chairmanship of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia President and General Designer V.A. Lopota and State commission were held. A decision on rollout of the launch vehicle with the Soyuz TMA-09M transport manned spacecraft to the launch facility and its preparation for launch planned for May 29, 2013 was adopted.

May 25, 2013.
Meetings of the Technical management and State commission were held
At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-09M transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.
Meetings of the Technical management under the chairmanship of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia President and General Designer V.A. Lopota and State commission were held. A decision on rollout of the launch vehicle with the Soyuz TMA-09M transport manned spacecraft to the launch facility and its preparation for launch planned for May 29, 2013 was adopted.


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Booster Soyuz-FG with spaceship Soyuz TMA-09M put on launching pad of Baikonur spaceport
Фото ИТАР-ТАСС
BAIKONUR (Kazakhstan), May 26 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian booster Soyuz-FG with the spaceship Soyuz TMA-09M, which will bring a new long-term expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), was put on the first launching pad of the Baikonur spaceport.
"The transportation and putting of the booster Soyuz-FG with the spaceship Soyuz TMA-09M docked to it passed as scheduled," a Roscosmos representative at the southern spaceport told Itar-Tass on Sunday.
The gates of the integration house opened at about 07:00 local time (05:00 Moscow time) on Sunday. The train convoyed by the policemen guarding it, the armoured personnel carriers and fire trucks has brought the launch vehicle Soyuz-FG with the spaceship Soyuz TMA-09M docked to it to the launching pad.
Tens of journalists, specialists of the space industry, foreign tourists and VIP-guests were watching the delivery of a 50-metre-long rocket with the symbols of Roscosmos, the rocket and space corporation Energia and the flags of Russia, the United States and the European Union put on the fairing.
The rocket is to be blasted off at 00:32 Moscow time on May 29, Roscosmos noted. The specialists will make final checks of the booster with the spaceship Soyuz TMA-09M docked to it and will fuel the booster in the days before the launch.
On Monday, May 27, the state committee will approve finally a line-up of the ISS crew. The resident ISS crew of Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg and European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano and their backups, namely Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio and Japan Space Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata are waiting for a meeting of the state committee. They are taking the pre-launch training sessions, doing exercises during the daily walks. An upcoming ISS mission or the orbit will last for about four months.

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