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Apollo-Soyuz Command Modules (docked). The National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, also called the NASM, is a museum in Washington, D.C. It holds the largest collection of historic aircraft and spacecraft in the world. (12/12/2016).
NHQ201603190002 (03/19/2016) --- The Soyuz TMA-20M rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Saturday, March 19, 2016 carrying Expedition 47 Soyuz Commander Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Jeff Williams of NASA, and Flight Engineer Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos into orbit to begin their five and a half month mission on the International Space Station. (Photo Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Washington
Museo Nacional del Aire y el Espacio de Estados Unidos (Institución Smithsonian)
The Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 47 crew members Tim Kopra of NASA, Tim Peake of the European Space Agency, and Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Saturday, June 18, 2016. Kopra, Peake, and Malenchenko are returning after six months in space where they served as members of the Expedition 46 and 47 crews onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Apollo-Soyuz Command Modules (docked). The National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, also called the NASM, is a museum in Washington, D.C. It holds the largest collection of historic aircraft and spacecraft in the world. (12/12/2016).
An Orthodox priest blesses members of the media at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad on Thursday, March 17, 2016 in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for March 19 Baikonur time and will carry Expedition 47 Soyuz Commander Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Jeff Williams of NASA, and Flight Engineer Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos into orbit to begin their five and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen posted this image on social media, commenting: "The only spacecraft on #ISS I will not fly, #Soyuz TMA-17M with Progress supply vessel in the background."
Follow Andreas Mogensen's mission with live updates via the iriss mission blog and Twitter via @esaoperations
Connect with Andreas at: andreasmogensen.esa.int/
Credit: ESA/NASA
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The Russian Soyuz spaceship rolling across the Kazakh steppe towards its launch pad in Baikonur ahead of blast off on Apr 7
On June 18 2016, after six months orbiting the Earth on the International Space Station conducting experiments, walking in space and even running a marathon, Major Tim Peake returned to Earth in the Soyuz TMA-19M descent module. Now, this historic craft is on display at the Science Museum.
Tim's Principia mission to the ISS began on 15 December 2015. The Museum welcomed 11,000 visitors that day, to watch the launch as it happened, celebrate the momentous occasion and wish the ESA's first British astronaut safe passage on his intrepid journey.
Today the descent module that brought him home is being exhibited in the Wellcome Wing, complete with scorch marks from its re-entry through the atmosphere. Soyuz TMA-19M is the first flown, manned spacecraft in the UK’s national space technology collection.
Here she is, our Soyuz. It's been sleeping for over 6 months, it's time to wake her up. On Monday: thrusters test.
Credit: ESA/NASA
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The Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 54 crew members Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei of NASA and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018 (Feb. 27 Eastern time). Acaba, Vande Hei, and Misurkin are returning after 168 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 53 and 54 crews onboard the International Space Station.
Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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The Soyuz spacecraft was orignally designed for the Soviet lunar program, but it took until the advent of nuclear powered space carriers for a Soyuz to actually get to the moon.
ESA astronaut Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and commander Yuri Malenchenko were launched into space on 15 December 2015 from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
The launch marks the start of Tim Peake’s six-month Principia mission on the International Space Station running over 30 scientific experiments for ESA.
Follow Tim Peake via timpeake.esa.int and follow the whole mission on ESA’s Principia blog blogs.esa.int/tim-peake.
Credit: ESA–Stephane Corvaja, 2015
The Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft is rolled out by train, on 13 December 2015, from the MIK 112 integration facility to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad 1, in Kazakhstan.
ESA astronaut Tim Peake will leave for the International Space Station from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 15 December at 11:03 GMT (12:03 CET) with NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian commander Yuri Malenchenko.
Follow Tim Peake and his mission via timpeake.esa.int and watch the launch live on the ESA website.
Credit: ESA–Stephane Corvaja, 2015
Our dear #Soyuz spaceship resting at her parking spot just outside our window.
Credits: ESA/NASA
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The Russian Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft that will transport ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano to the International Space Station is rolled out onto launchpad number one at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
This rocket will be launched on Saturday 20 July, marking the start of Luca’s second space mission known as Beyond.
In the lead-up to liftoff, component parts of a Soyuz spacecraft are brought to Kazakhstan to be assembled. Once the rocket is ready, it is loaded onto a train and transported to the launchpad.
The rollout happens in the morning, two days ahead of launch day. It is considered bad luck for the crew to witness this rollout or see the rocket again before the day of their launch, though the rollout is witnessed by the backup crew and support teams.
When the train arrives at its destination on the launchpad, the rocket is put into position. When it is fully lifted, four green arms ensure it is secured correctly for liftoff. These arms will mechanically rotate away to release the rocket at the time of launch.
After the rocket has been secured, the service structure containing the stairs and elevator as well as the umbilical towers that provide fuel and liquid oxygen, are erected.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
Pour le plaisir je partage à nouveau une de mes photos du Soyuz s’amarrant à MLM. Je l’aime particulièrement parce qu’elle rend vraiment justice à la vitesse à laquelle nous volons autour de la terre. On aperçoit le hublot illuminé de Piotr, c’est la touche un peu humaine de se dire que oui, il y a bien des gens à l’intérieur de ces machines infernales :) On dirait presque un dessin de manga Japonais non ? La touche artistique : je me suis amusé à faire quelques expositions longues après que l’équipage du Soyouz s'est amarré. Les nuages à l’arrière-plan donne une impression de vitesse qui me plait beaucoup.
Another picture of Soyuz and MLM docking. With the long exposure it shows somewhat the speed at which we fly over Earth. Pyotr's port hole is lit up showing that humans are inside and this is not a robotic docking. It reminds me of a manga! The would-be artist’s touch: I played with some long exposures after the Soyuz crew redocked. I like the feeling of speed given by night clouds! Soyuz port relocation! Oleg, Pyotr and Mark undocked from MRM1, went Station forward to take some pictures, came back Station aft to dock with MLM. First docking with MLM ever!
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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This long-exposure image captures a pair of Russian Soyuz capsules attached to the International Space Station as the outpost flies over the night lights of Earth at 17,500 mph.
Image credit: NASA
À une prochaine fois Oleg, Yulia et Klim, aucun doute : on se recroisera sur Terre ! Piotr et Mark restent à bord avec nous, avec sans doute une impression étrange aujourd’hui de voir leur ancien vaisseau partir sans eux ! Ils redescendront sur Terre dans 6 mois à bord du Soyouz MS-19 avec lequel Anton est arrivé. Le Soyuz, comme toute capsule spatiale, est certifié pouvoir rester un certain temps en orbite, car certains équipements fonctionnent en permanence, et s’usent petit à petit… comme sur une voiture, un avion ou n’importe quel véhicule, rien ne peut fonctionner indéfiniment, surtout en environnement extrême. Après un peu plus de 200 jours, il faut redescendre sur terre, d’où les rotations régulières (et parfois le changement de véhicule à la montée et la descente comme ici : on laisse le véhicule le plus récent et on redescend avec le plus ancient). Et oui, c’est pareil avec le Dragon. Seule l’ISS ne redescend jamais, et c’est une prouesse technique de l’entretenir in-situ
The Soyuz MS-18 leaving with Oleg, Yulia and Klim. Mark and Pyotr are still here with us even if they travelled with the Soyuz MS-18 "Yuri Gagarin" that left this morning to get here. It must be a weird feeling to see your spacecraft leave! They return home in the Soyuz MS-19 that arrived with Anton, a fresh spacecraft. The Soyuz, like all spacecraft, is certified to stay a number of days in orbit. Equipment suffers from natural wear and tear and like a car, or aircraft nothing can work indefinitely, especially in extreme environment like space. After around 200 days the Soyuz must return to Earth, this is why we have regular rotations (and why sometimes people arrive on a spacecraft and return on another one like today: we leave the more recent spacecraft and take the older one back home). It is the same for the Dragon. Only the International Space Station never returns, and it is through technical prowess from the engineers on Earth that we are able to maintain it while in orbit!
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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La saison des aurores australes est de retour ! Ou plutôt, notre orbite et le vent solaire nous ont permis d’en observer à nouveau, personne ne va s’en plaindre 😍 Un détail quand même : le Soyouz qui photobombe les images n’est plus celui d’Oleg : c’est le vaisseau d’Anton :)
Aurora season is back! Our orbits and the solar wind have made the aurora visible again. No one is complaining! 😍 One thing has changed... the Soyuz in the foreground is now Anton's, and no longer Oleg's :)
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, commander Sergei Volkov and Aidyn Aimbetov were launched into space on 2 September at 04:38 GMT (06:38 CEST) from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
The launch marks the start of ESA’s 10-day ‘iriss’ mission that will focus on testing new technologies and ways of running complex space missions.
The astronaut’s Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft was pushed into Earth orbit as planned accelerating 50 km/h on every second for the first nine minutes of their launch.
Their docking is planned on 4 September at 07:42 GMT (09:42 CEST) but they will not enter their new home in space until the astronauts on both sides of the spacecraft hatch to ensure that there are no leaks.
Follow the whole mission with live updates via the iriss mission blog and Twitter via @esaoperations
Connect with Andreas at: andreasmogensen.esa.int/
Credit: ESA-S. Corvaja
À une prochaine fois Oleg, Ioulia et Klim, aucun doute : on se recroisera sur Terre ! Piotr et Mark restent à bord avec nous, avec sans doute une impression étrange aujourd’hui de voir leur ancien vaisseau partir sans eux ! Ils redescendront sur Terre dans six mois à bord du Soyouz MS-19 avec lequel Anton est arrivé. Le Soyuz, comme toute capsule spatiale, est certifié pouvoir rester un certain temps en orbite, car certains équipements fonctionnent en permanence, et s’usent petit à petit… comme sur une voiture, un avion ou n’importe quel véhicule, rien ne peut fonctionner indéfiniment, surtout en environnement extrême. Après un peu plus de 200 jours, il faut redescendre sur terre, d’où les rotations régulières (et parfois le changement de véhicule à la montée et la descente comme ici : on laisse le véhicule le plus récent et on redescend avec le plus ancient). Et oui, c’est pareil avec le Dragon. Seule l’ISS ne redescend jamais, et c’est une prouesse technique de l’entretenir in-situ!
The Soyuz MS-18 leaving with Oleg, Yulia and Klim. Mark and Pyotr are still here with us even if they travelled with the Soyuz MS-18 "Yuri Gagarin" that left this morning to get here. It must be a weird feeling to see your spacecraft leave! They return home in the Soyuz MS-19 that arrived with Anton, a fresh spacecraft. The Soyuz, like all spacecraft, is certified to stay a number of days in orbit. Equipment suffers from natural wear and tear and like a car, or aircraft nothing can work indefinitely, especially in extreme environment like space. After around 200 days the Soyuz must return to Earth, this is why we have regular rotations (and why sometimes people arrive on a spacecraft and return on another one like today: we leave the more recent spacecraft and take the older one back home). It is the same for the Dragon. Only the International Space Station never returns, and it is through technical prowess from the engineers on Earth that we are able to maintain it while in orbit!
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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The Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Flight Engineers Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Monday, April 10, 2017 (Kazakh time). Kimbrough, Ryzhikov, and Borisenko are returning after 173 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 49 and 50 crews onboard the International Space Station.
Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
The Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 49 crew members NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos, and astronaut Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016 (Kazakh time).
Rubins, Ivanishin, and Onishi are returning after 115 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 48 and 49 crews onboard the International Space Station.
For more information about the International Space Station, click here.
Europe’s largest satellite constellation has grown even bigger, following the launch of two more Galileo navigation satellites by Soyuz launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 5 December. Galileo satellites 27-28 add to an existing 26-satellite constellation in orbit, providing the world’s most precise satnav positioning to more than 2.3 billion users around the globe.
Soyuz launcher VS-26, operated by Arianespace and commissioned by ESA, lifted off with the pair of 715 kg satellites from French Guiana on 5 December at 01:19 CET. All the Soyuz stages performed as planned, with the Fregat upper stage releasing the satellites into their target orbit close to 23 525 km altitude, around 3 hours and 54 minutes after liftoff.
The satellites will spend the coming weeks being manoeuvred into their final working orbit at 23 222 km using their onboard thrusters, at the same time as their onboard systems are gradually checked out for operational use – known as the Launch and Early Operations Phase.
Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique Vidéo du CSG - P Piron
Congratulations on a successful launch and docking Soyuz 46S crew! Welcome aboard
Soyuz 46S arriving at the International Space Station Saturday 20 March 2016
Credits: ESA/NASA
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ESA astronaut Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and commander Yuri Malenchenko were launched into space on 15 December 2015 from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
The launch marks the start of Tim Peake’s six-month Principia mission on the International Space Station running over 30 scientific experiments for ESA.
Follow Tim Peake via timpeake.esa.int and follow the whole mission on ESA’s Principia blog blogs.esa.int/tim-peake.
Credit: ESA–Stephane Corvaja, 2015
The Soyuz MS-03 crew ship (foreground) and the Progress 66 cargo craft are pictured as the International Space Station orbits about 250 miles above Earth.
Image Credit: NASA
The Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft is moved into vertical position, on 13 December 2015, from the MIK 112 integration facility to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad 1, in Kazakhstan.
ESA astronaut Tim Peake will leave for the International Space Station from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 15 December at 11:03 GMT (12:03 CET) with NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian commander Yuri Malenchenko.
Follow Tim Peake and his mission via timpeake.esa.int and watch the launch live on the ESA website.
Credit: ESA–Stephane Corvaja, 2015
A view that brings back memories, the Soyuz that brought me to the Space Station in 2016 for #Proxima was docked to the exact same docking port. This one is Oleg's, Pyotr's and Mark's, flying over Cuba. You can also see a Russian Progress cargo spacecraft docked and blocking the view. A tell-tale sign to differentiate the two is that a Soyuz has a green "periscope" to look through during docking. A Progress carries no astronauts and is automated so there is no need for a periscope – as nobody will ever look through it :) The Soyuz docked with the Station now is named "Yuri Gagarin" (Ю́. А. Гага́рин) after the first person to enter Earth orbit, 60 years ago this year.
Une vue qui me rappelle des souvenirs : c’est en Soyouz et par ce port d’amarrage que je suis arrivé pour la première fois en 2016. Le Soyouz d’Oleg, Pëtr et Mark s’appelle “Youri Gagarine” et survole Cuba… comme un parfum d’années 60 règne dans ce cliché 🇨🇺
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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The Soyuz MS-22 rocket is launched to the International Space Station with Expedition 68 astronaut Frank Rubio of NASA, and cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin of Roscosmos onboard, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Rubio, Prokopyev, and Petelin will spend approximately six months on the orbital complex, returning to Earth in March 2023. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
The Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft is moved into vertical position, on 13 December 2015, from the MIK 112 integration facility to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad 1, in Kazakhstan.
ESA astronaut Tim Peake will leave for the International Space Station from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 15 December at 11:03 GMT (12:03 CET) with NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian commander Yuri Malenchenko.
Follow Tim Peake and his mission via timpeake.esa.int and watch the launch live on the ESA website.
Credit: ESA–Stephane Corvaja, 2015
Soyuz lifted off for the first time from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on 21 October 2011, carrying the first two Galileo In-Orbit Validation satellites.
For more information, please visit :
www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Galileo_IOV/
Credits line: ESA - S. Corvaja, 2011
The Soyuz rocket and Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft is assembled Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft is scheduled for March 19 and will send Expedition 47 Soyuz Commander Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Jeff Williams of NASA, and Flight Engineer Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos to the International Space Station for a five and a half month stay. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov)
La saison des aurores australes est de retour ! Ou plutôt, notre orbite et le vent solaire nous ont permis d’en observer à nouveau, personne ne va s’en plaindre 😍 Un détail quand même : le Soyouz qui photobombe les images n’est plus celui d’Oleg : c’est le vaisseau d’Anton :)
Aurora season is back! Our orbits and the solar wind have made the aurora visible again. No one is complaining! 😍 One thing has changed... the Soyuz in the foreground is now Anton's, and no longer Oleg's :)
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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This montage of three frames shows the Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft as it lands with Expedition 23 Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineers T.J. Creamer and Soichi Noguchi near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, June 2, 2010 (local time in Kazakhstan - 11:25 pm Eastern Daylight Time on June 1, 2010). NASA Astronaut Creamer, Russian Cosmonaut Kotov and Japanese Astronaut Noguchi were returning from six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 22 and 23 crews.
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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Date: June 1, 2010 (Eastern Time)
The Soyuz MS-05 carrying ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli, NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik and cosmonaut Sergey Ryazansky docked with the International Space Station at 22:00 GMT on 28 July.
Credit: NASA
The Soyuz rocket that will carry Sentinel-1B into orbit heads to the launch tower at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Liftoff is set for 22 April.
Credit: ESA
The Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with Expedition 48-49 crewmembers Kate Rubins of NASA, Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) onboard, Thursday, July 7, 2016 , Kazakh time (July 6 Eastern time), Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Rubins, Ivanishin, and Onishi will spend approximately four months on the orbital complex, returning to Earth in October. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)