New organisation launches toward International Space Station
A new organisation is headed to a International Space Station after what NASA called “a really successful launch today.”
NASA moody engineers Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba and Russian Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin blasted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 5:17 p.m. ET.Â
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It took a Soyuz booster about 9 mins to launch into an initial circuit 202 kilometres from Earth. A array of engine browns will move a organisation in line with a circuit of a International Space Station.
The Soyuz rocket blasts off currently during 5:17pm ET carrying Exp 53-54 organisation towards station. https://t.co/2yhQbkFuId pic.twitter.com/wXMdfq9fWP
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The Soyuz will strech a space hire in six hours, docking during 10:57 p.m.
NASA said that “the organisation is feeling fine.”
Crew members Joe Acaba of NASA, Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos and Mark Vande Hei of NASA poise for a sketch for a press outward a Soyuz simulator on Aug. 31, during a Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Star City, Russia. (Bill Ingalls/NASA)
The space station is a usually henceforth assigned laboratory in space. It orbits about 400 kilometres above Earth.
The hatches will open around 12:40 a.m. ET on Sept. 13, where they will be greeted by the current crew, stoical of NASA commander Randy Bresnik and moody engineers Sergey Ryasanskiy from Roscosmos and Paolo Nespoli from a European Space Agency.
U.S. wanderer Mark Vande Hei gestures to his kin from a train before to a launch, his initial outing to space. (Dmitri Lovetsky/Associated Press)
The goal is a initial for Vande Hei.Â
“As a child we never would have told anyone that we wanted to be an astronaut. My opinion about that was that it would have been like observant we wanted to be Spider-Man,” pronounced Vande Hei in a video expelled by NASA before to a launch. “I always suspicion operative during NASA would be extraordinary since of my production background.… The fact that we get to be an wanderer is gravy.”
Vande Hei pronounced he’s happy to be partial of a “peaceful attempt that could indeed assistance out all of humanity.”
Joseph Acaba of NASA is seen before to launch. (Dmitri Lovetsky/Associated Press)
On Sept. 2, dual NASA astronauts, Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer, as good as Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, returned from a space station with a parachute touchdown in Kazakhstan. Whitson, 57, broke a U.S. record for accumulative time in space.
Learn a small bit some-more about @AstroAcaba before he launches to a space hire during 5:17 p.m. EDT today! pic.twitter.com/NuvspKs0E6
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The new space station crew will stay for 5 months. They’ll continue work on hundreds of experiments in biology and biotechnology, as good as physical and earth sciences.
Learn a small bit some-more about @Astro_Sabot before he launches to a space hire during 5:17 p.m. EDT today! pic.twitter.com/DuonpcnmfC
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