Expedition 30 Soyuz Spacecraft Integration and Rocket Roll Out to the Launch Pad
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The Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft and its booster were moved to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a railcar on December 19, 2011, for final preparations prior to launch to the International Space Station on December 21. The TMA-03M will carry Expedition 30 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko, NASA Flight Engineer Don Pettit and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers to the complex. The trio will spend five months on the outpost, joining station Commander Dan Burbank of NASA and Russian Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin, who have been in orbit for just over a month.
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Expedition 30 Soyuz Spacecraft Integration and Rocket Roll Out to the Launch Pad
30 Comments
30 Comments
I miss the space shuttle and I have always been a NASA buff, but have you seen how these guys launch? They let these things go up in IFR conditions, nothing short of a piece of broken hardware stops them. They are like Cessna or Grumman airplanes fueled by liquid oxygen and rocket grade kerosene and just as reliable. This is how the rest of us need to build rockets if we are to compete.
@Debesukaleejs exploring parallel universe A34Mb‑1.2 probably?
i wonder how many other rockets you know..
I love the dude at the end. His jacket is thicker than a space suit!
What are those square white panels with hydraulic arms attached shown at the start and 7min in?
They appear to be some sort of deployable panels that get extended to 90 degrees. Judging by their texture I think they’re simply platforms that can be deployed to stand on while its standing upright on the launch pad in order to gain access to certain areas. They could also be covering doors/windows, seeing as they’re at the nose of the spacecraft (where the crew stays)
It’s so nice to see this cooperation to get men into space. Exactly what the ISS was designed for 🙂
so beautifull
An American Flag in the same type of Rocket that was created 60 years ago to put a nuclear bomb over a US city. Man, we’ve come a long way.
its not just about the money theese rockets are compact and more powerful than the amercans by their size theese are better designed
yup because of German rocket technology the used them against England and thausands of German Scientists were fworking for the US trhey designed the rocket for the launch
probably space.
Wrong. This air brakes. Used when resetting the cowling.
Sorry for “google-translate”.
thanks for the information
Nowdays Nasa doesnt have ‘so much money’. To me the russian program never recover from Korolev’s death. But in some sense i agree with you: Russia made an incredible job with less resources. Anyway i wonder where humanity would be if US Russia and other countries work together.
NASA hardly has anything at all, they get half a penny on the dollar of the budget
Right now, they mostly do. ISS includes basically everyone except China (not really their decision) and maybe India. More currently, Orion is getting a new service module from ESA.
Thanks! The beautiful Russian rocret machine.
Right On!
probably on a permanent station on the moon. they were just spending the money for something else — weapons. and still No1 in that area. It’s funny, at the same time they built the best rocket in the world they couldn’t make a decent car.…
awwwwww thats so nice 🙂 1 year later, but hope you have a good day today 🙂
AWESOME TECHNOLOGY !
GOP CROOKS HELPED THEMSELVES TO NASA MONEY !!!
MOAR BOOOM!
What about US military and space budjet proportions?
Really… R‑really?…
What in the name of good God would it have else been? I mean, i’m not just counting the fact that the video’s title states something about rockets and spacecraft, but that the video is like, a rocket in the face of the lenses.
Soyuz rockets have multiple roles one is war other space so they are used differently.
Could you imagine if they came the following morning and it was gone?
Muy bueno el video, interesante.
Reliable and dependable equipment.…!
Very nice!