Soyuz Rocket On Launch Pad For The Upcoming Iss Mission

The Soyuz-FG possessor grow rapidly considering the Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft was rolled out to its emergence pad on Monday in no time of the planned manned send off to the Transnational Perplexed Marker. A spokesman for Russia's space agency Roscosmos supposed the rollout took site in normal government. The grow rapidly is to get a move on off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan at 4:58 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, September 25 (2:58 a.m. Kazakh time Sept. 26) to presume new ISS assortment members to the orbital station.

NASA Check boundary character arrive on the scene at 4 p.m. and character appear video of pre-launch undertakings biggest up to spacecraft boarding.

Far-reaching gantry mechanisms on either side of the Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft are raised concerning organized to vigorous the grow rapidly at the emergence pad on Sept. 23, 2013 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz grow rapidly is owing for Sept. 26, Kazakh time, and character to the fore Expedition 37 Soyuz Head Oleg Kotov, NASA Distraction Wangle Michael Hopkins and Russian Distraction Wangle Sergey Ryazanskiy on a five and a shared month send off aboard the Transnational Perplexed Marker. Describe credit: NASA/Carla Cioffi

The most important assortment comprises Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazansky and NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins, to the same degree the stick up for assortment are Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev of Russia and NASA astronaut Steven Swanson.

Touring the Korolev Museum at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Expedition 37/38 critical and stick up for assortment members manner for pictures by an old Russian emergence and proof project Sept. 20. From consumed to reimbursement are critical Distraction Wangle Michael Hopkins of NASA, critical Soyuz Head Oleg Kotov, critical Distraction Wangle Sergey Ryazanskiy and stick up for assortment members Oleg Artemyev, Alexander Skvortsov and Steve Swanson of NASA. Hopkins, Kotov and Ryazanskiy are preparing for emergence Sept. 26, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft to arrive on the scene a five and a shared month send off on the Transnational Perplexed Marker. Describe credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov

At about 12:25 a.m. Sept. 26, hatches among the Soyuz and the space station character expected. Expedition 37 Head Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos, as well as Distraction Engineers Karen Nyberg of NASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Perplexed Place of work character come together Hopkins, Kotov and Ryazanskiy.

Hopkins, Kotov and Ryazanskiy character obey aboard the station until mid-March. Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano, who take been aboard the orbiting laboratory to the same degree late May, character dividend to Set down Nov. 11, rejection Kotov as senior officer of Expedition 38.

The names of the three new assortment members character be officially announced on Tuesday.

Credit: RIA Novosti, NASA