The two Russian cosmonauts will stay on the station for six months together with an American crew member who will change on the next shuttle flight
The commander of the 17th crew of the space station, Sergey Alexandrovich Volkov and cosmonaut Oleg Dmitrievich Koronenko arrived at the International Space Station in their spacecraft - Suiz TMA-12. The connection took place around nine o'clock in the morning EST, four in the afternoon Israel time and it marks the beginning of their six-month stay at the station.
Together with them, the first Korean astronaut, Su-Yeon Yi, arrived at the station. Yee will return to Earth along with crew 16 members Peggy Whitson and Yuri Melanchenko aboard the Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft on April 19.
After opening the doors about two hours and forty minutes after joining, the teams met together with the third member - Garrett Reisman who will move from the 16th team to the 17th team as a flight engineer. Reisman will be replaced by Greg Chaimtoff on the next shuttle mission scheduled for late May.
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there is! Thank you 🙂
to the cat I will gladly look for material and try to take care of it by Friday.
Avi,
Can I order an article? Perhaps you could tell us about the modular composition of the station today, with all the additions that the various nationalities put on it and what they are used for?
Good to know (my feeling was that he meant one-on-one communication).
Maybe I've seen too few of the video broadcasts from the station, or they don't do it anymore? Because the excitement of seeing Peggy (is that her name?) doing spinning, you forget after a while...
For Noam and the cat
(good to know that the cat's survival function has collapsed to life) - seriously - you can talk to the space station and the space shuttle without having to be in Houston or another official ground station. Usually there is an astronaut on the station or in the shuttle who is a radio amateur and then he can call radio amateurs all over the world. In most cases, communication is conducted not with individual radio amateurs, but with amateur stations in educational educational institutions, etc. A few years ago there was an initiative of Israeli radio enthusiasts and the observatory in Givatayim and they set up a communication station there and talked to an astronaut. My father was there and wrote about it in their knowledge.
for the cat:
Good thing you clarified yourself.
I was afraid that you joined what I started in my comments in the previous report on the subject
https://www.hayadan.org.il/soyuz-tm12-lift-off-090408/
And I'm glad you didn't.
I won't say what I meant to write this time because, as mentioned, it seems cruel to me and I am also sorry for the comments I sent in the above link
I don't know what you were planning on, Michael, but the only cruelty in my response is directed at those in quotation marks.
I also think it's amazing, but it's not hard to understand that it's impossible.
for the cat:
I also wrote a funny comment but upon finishing writing it I came to the conclusion that what we are doing is cruel and I decided to refrain from sending it.
Study well, join the "brain drain" operation and grab a seat in Houston. Successfully.
A question for my father, the editor of the site, I wanted to talk to them that they are at the station and I am on Earth. How do you do that? It's amazing