Soyuz Mates, Moves to Launch Pad
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At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft was mated to its booster rocket on Dec. 16, and the spacecraft and its booster were moved to the launch pad on a railcar Dec. 17 for final preparations before launch to the International Space Station on Dec. 19. The Soyuz TMA-07M will carry Expedition 34/35 Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko, Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn of NASA and Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency to the orbital outpost. The trio will spend five months on the laboratory, joining station Commander Kevin Ford of NASA and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin, who have been in orbit since late October. The footage also includes interviews with Mike Fossum, Associate Director of Flight Crew Operations, JSC, and with William Gerstenmaier, Associate Administrator for Human Exploration Operations.
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Soyuz Mates, Moves to Launch Pad
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If you’re alive for the next 3–4 years you’ll see them ride SpaceX’s Falcon 9.
Is that the orion on top?
The Orion is still in development. As it is helpfully stated in the video title and description, this is the Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
This is epic.
2nd time I’m watching the Soyuz mating procedure, getting to know & love the Russian hardware, even felt the urge to give the technicians a helping hand at tightening the bolts now I’ve seen some of the steps before 🙂
The Russian vehicles are looking very neat & tidy, a big big difference when compared to how they looked at the end of the Soviet area 1990s.
Fantastic to see both flags, Russian & USA, on the vehicle, very heart warming to see such international cooperation & success.
Good work
lol have you heard of a space shuttle?
Only recently
oh you will not on a nasa built one. Space X and other companies have contracts to bring astronauts to the space station around 2015. They already ressuplyy thr ISS
Considering the basic design started as an ICBM in the late 50’s, this is still by far the most successful rocket design in the history of manned space travel. When pondering the differences between the American and Russian approach to rocket technology the old joke comes to mind: Nasa had problems writing notes in space so they spent a million dollars developing an ink pen that would write in zero G, the Russians just used a pencil. Apocryphal, I know, but it does show the different mindsets
Maybe he never saw any of the shuttle launches and is now regretting it as he has to wait for the next manned vehicle to come into service.
They are all retired now…
Soyuz is on the pad now we wait for the crew
Any one knows what these 4 big panels are on close to the top of the rocket?
Надёжнее некуда
What time is the launch on the 19th?
The Russians make great spacecraft! The western space programs would be completely stuffed without such a dedicated professional team in the russian space program.… I’m looking forward to watching a successful launch.…
sehr schöne video transfer neue Technologie film hier
Unfortunately, this is only possible if the other political and economic structure of life on the planet. And while only rivalry and division.
It’s all created by other people, who dreamed and thought differently.
Half a century ago.
This is true. You accurately note the difference in national technical thinking! .))
Советский Союз. (The Soviet Union.)
a Union(eng.) — Soyuz (rus.)
Russians, too, would like to see the Russian (soviet) space programs was restored. What we see — it’s her pitiful remnants. Unfortunately ((
Aerodynamic stabilizers for the launch abort system. In case of emergency on the launch pad or in the first minutes of flight, the upper part of the rocket with the spacecraft separates, open these stabilizers and flies away from the accident site.
By crikey! It’s Soyuz mating season again and just look at the size of those handsome specimens… 😀
Great job, good fellows. Only with unity will human kind prevail against ourselves.
Then what you are using, do alone in a hostile environment and not for you. No need to talk about team effort. Rejoice in victory yet. Until a certain time.
Many who spoke on joint efforts. Those who like to use someone else’s
Напишу по-русски, думаю поймёте. По моему мнению, когда говорят о совместных усилиях, это либо слабость и неспособность быть впереди в одиночку, либо лицемерие и желание попользоваться не принадлежащим тебе.
К сожалению в обществе победившего потреблядства невозможно ставить и успешно решать запредельные задачи.
Это было возможно при другой системе, нацеленной в будущее, а не направленной на насилование и эксплуатацию созданного другими и для других целей.
Это не значит, что так будет всегда, но сейчас так. Пока только деградация. Также я уважаю желание американцев иметь собственную национальную космическую программу.
Только так будет реальный прогресс, соревнование и движение вперёд.
Rocket launches probably the same effect on the environment as a HUGE bonfire. I don’t think that it is a bad thing for the environment.
Seems that NASA and the RSA are “allies” if you will. Too bad America and Russia aren’t.
Contracted to be done by Space X quite soon actually. I believe they’re to have the manned propulsion vehicle capable of flight to the moon ready by 2015 and a mission would be tentative based on that for 2018. If the mission were to happen Space X is to begin transporting materials for the government to begin the construction of a stationary base on the lunar surface in 2020.
yes i had a facepalm to but the escapetower confused me a little
Is it in museum exhibition?)))
In the words of designer Tupolev aircraft, “beautiful airplanes — good to flys.” The same can be said about the rockets))
Wow, I’m shivering just watching.
No more Space Shuttles for this planet. Only Dragons and Orion, when it’s done. =p
Nnnope,we gonna restart “buran” in 2014–2016,so where will be shuttles,just not american
NGPTS (New russian spacecraft) is not a Shuttle-like, and Buran program will not be restored. In reality Dragon, Orion and NGPTS are more preferable, then Shuttle — They’re smaller and lighter, more efficient and safer. Also, they are WAY cheaper. Plane-like form is basically unneeded in space. Also, Buran has more flaws, than Shuttle, for example, it has way more expensive non-reusable booster engines. And overall, there is no need in Shuttle-like crafts — 100% reusable Falcon 9 is on it’s way.
wow amazing
I like the sound of the 2‑stroke diesel which is powering the hydraulics.