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Old 07-April-2008, 05:02 AM
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SpaceflightNow: ISS Expedition 17: Mission Status

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SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 2008
Two rookie Russian cosmonauts and South Korea's first astronaut will rocket into space Tuesday, riding aboard a Soyuz capsule in pursuit of the international space station.

Liftoff from the historic Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan is scheduled for 7:16 a.m. EDT (1116 GMT), beginning a 9-minute ascent to orbit for the three-stage liquid-fueled booster.
NASA TV coverage starts about 1 hour before launch.

NASA: Expedition 17
Wikipedia: Expedition 17

Launch target:
Tuesday, April 8, 0416 PDT
Tuesday, April 8, 0716 EDT
Tuesday, April 8, 1116 UTC
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How do you pronounce Baikonur? I usually say "bacon-ur", but is that right?
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Bye-kon-or

And Korea's first astronaut will be a woman (even though she's not the first choice) good for them!
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How do you pronounce Baikonur? I usually say "bacon-ur", but is that right?
It's part of a triathlon. Swim for 15 minutes, Baikanur, and then run for 30 minutes.
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I saw the ISS pass over last night (Devon, England) and was impressed with how much brighter it was than last time I saw it, presumably because of the addition of ATV Jules Verne, crystal clear night and just passed the new moon, pretty, almost poetic.

Q. Does anyone know when expedition 17 will dock with ISS? I can't find any more than Thursday 10th, or, how long it is in the vicinity of the ISS, what I'd like to see is both the ISS and a docking rocket travelling over close to each other but not attached. Previous dockings have been at the wrong point of it's orbit (from my point of view ;-)), but this time ISS is visible for me until the 12th.
Couldn't find anything obvious on NASA or Heavens-Above sites,

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Q. Does anyone know when expedition 17 will dock with ISS?
NASA TV schedule:

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April 10, Thursday
8:30 a.m. - ISS Expedition 17/Spaceflight Participant Soyuz Docking Coverage (docking scheduled at 9 a.m.)
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11:30 a.m. - ISS Expedition 17/Spaceflight Participant Hatch Opening Coverage (hatch open scheduled at 11:50 a.m.)
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Docking target:
Thursday April 10 0600 PDT
Thursday April 10 0900 EDT
Thursday April 10 1300 UTC

21-1/2 hours to docking
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5-1/2 hours to start of NASA TV coverage

Lizard Tail GoogleSatTrack: ISS and Soyuz

AFP: SKorean, Russians ready to dock at space station

AFP: Astronauts relish new Asian space food

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Cinnamon tea, noodles and South Korea's beloved pickle dish kimchi -- all developed by a Korean institute to be bacteria-free -- are among the 10 menu items [Ye So-Yeon] will be eating and drinking during her 12-day mission.
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Astronauts once complained of going hungry after being forced to suck food paste out of small aluminium tubes.

But advances in technology, and the growing number of countries sending their citizens into space, have enriched the space cuisine with new flavours.
Docking target:
Thursday April 10 0600 PDT
Thursday April 10 0900 EDT
Thursday April 10 1300 UTC

6 hours to docking
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Thanks for the responses,
It will have docked by the time it's passing over me tonight :-(
It's also raining and cloudy now; but that's more expected than the snow we had on Sunday; in Devon! in April!
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NASA TV coverage is underway.

Docking target:
Thursday April 10 0600 PDT
Thursday April 10 0900 EDT
Thursday April 10 1300 UTC

23 minutes to docking
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Go for docking.

Range 100 meters.
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Docking confirmed. 57 minutes past the hour.

Textbook.

Coming up:

11:30 a.m. - ISS Expedition 17/Spaceflight Participant Hatch Opening Coverage (hatch open scheduled at 11:50 a.m.)

NASA TV

Hatch opening target:
Thursday April 10 0850 PDT
Thursday April 10 1150 EDT
Thursday April 10 1550 UTC
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Hatch open.

Edit, 32 minutes past the hour: Oops, they're discussing not opening the hatch until 47 minutes past the hour because that's when the PAO event is. Sounds like they'll open Soyuz hatch now and open the ISS side then. Gotta stick to the script.
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OK. Hatch officially open.

View looking into Pirs module, with newbies coming up from Soyuz for hugs.

hatchopen.jpg

Edit: Opening ceremony at the hour.

Edit: Greeting press conference:

expedition17greeting.jpg
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I would love to "fly" through the hatch and into the station. Someday, hopefully. For now, I'll make do with dreams and scuba.
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OK. Hatch officially open...

...Edit: Greeting press conference...
Cool! Reminds me of entering the Marine (excuse me...) the United States Marine Quarters Deck of a ship I visited.

Great comraderie. They ribbed me six ways to Sunday because I wasn't of their service.

I ribbed them back.

I lived.

That must account for something...
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NASA ISS News: Russian Spacewalkers Retrieve Soyuz Pyro Bolt

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The spacewalk comes in the wake of ballistic entries by the two most recent Soyuz spacecraft, entries that while safe resulted in high-G rides for the crews and landings hundreds of miles short of the planned recovery area. Russian engineers say they have evidence that failed explosive bolts that help separate two modules likely are responsible.
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They demated electrical connectors and cut a wire tie between adjacent pyro bolts in the suspect position. Volkov unscrewed and retrieved one of the pyro bolts there. With help from Kononenko he stowed it in a protective blast-proof cylindrical case. The spacewalkers installed a thermal blanket over their work area and took photos of the site.
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