Space Forum / Space Station / May 2005

04/14/2005 Baikonur Cosmodrome.
A meeting of the State Board was held at which the Soyuz TMA-6 and ISS-11
prime and backup crews were approved, as well as a decision was made to
continue the Soyuz-FG/Soyuz TMA-6 rocket & space complex processing for

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April 13, 2005. Baikonur Cosmodrome.
At 5:00 a.m. Moscow Time, the transporter with the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle
and the Soyuz TMA-6 transport spacecraft left the Assembly and Testing
Facility and arrived to the launch pad for the final pre-launch processing.

International Space Station Expedition 10 Science Operations Status Report
for the Week Ending April 6, 2005
04.11.05
Steve Roy

04/12/2005 Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Orbital module of the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle, containing Soyuz TMA-6
spacecraft was integrated with the launch vehicle in the LV Assembly and
Testing Facility.

English follows
Participation canadienne à la mission spatiale Soyouz Eneide
Longueuil (Québec), le 12 avril 2005 -  En décembre dernier, nous annoncions
que Robert Thirsk, astronaute de l'Agence spatiale canadienne, avait été

April 9, 2005. Baikonur Cosmodrome.
The prime crew (Sergei Krikalev (Russia), John Phillips (USA), Roberto
Vittori (Italy)) and backup crew (Mikhail Tyurin (Russia), Daniel Tani
(USA), Robert Thirsk (Canada)) of the Soyuz TMA-6 transport spacecraft

Is there a crew return vehicle still in the works?  I heard talk a couple
years ago of scaling the crew down from 7 to 6.  What effect did this have?
What is the contigency plan for evaculation once the station is fully
staffed?

International Space Station Status Report #05-18
3 p.m. CDT, Friday, April 8, 2005
Expedition 10 Crew
The current International Space Station crew began packing for home this

Does anybody have the launch window, nominal in-plane liftoff times for
STS-114 for the range of days (May 15 thru June 3) that NASA is
planning to launch? Unless the Space Station is going to be doing a lot of
maneuvering between now and then these times are pretty much fixed.

Any chance the ISS crew can spot the moon's shadow
on earth's surface this afternoon? Thanks!
Jim

Baikonur Cosmodrome, 07-04-2005
Soyuz TMA-6 spacecraft was docked with the transfer compartment in the
Spacecraft Assembly and Testing Facility.
Photo-report:

April 6, 2005. Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Fueling of the Soyuz TMA-6 transport spacecraft with propellants and
compressed gases is under way.
Photo Report:

April 5, 2005. Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Fueling of the Soyuz TMA-6 transport spacecraft with propellants and
compressed gases is under way.
Photo Report:

Erica Hupp/Allard Beutel
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-1237/4767)
Bruce Buckingham