MIAMI. More than 48 hours after its liftoff from the base of Baikonur, in Kazakhstan, the three astronauts aboard the spaceship Russian Soyuz arrived in the night from Saturday to Sunday to the International Space Station (ISS), it confirmed Nasa.
"we’re looking at and we couldn’t be more proud," said Charles Bolden, Nasa administrator, as he addressed the crew of the ISS, now six cosmonauts with the arrival of the French Thomas Pesquet, Russian Oleg Novitski and the american Peggy Whitson.
Coupled to the Saturday at 21:58 GMT the ISS, the three new occupants of the international space station, had to wait exactly two hours and 42 minutes until 00:40 GMT, to enter what will be your home for six months, and hug his three companions. That was the time it took to bring the entire assembly between the Soyuz and the ISS.
Three of those three hours of waiting, in the 2.5 m long from the tiny Soyuz, the three new riders of the ERA were received by their predecessors up on the 19th of October, the american Shane Kimbrough and the russians Serguei Ryjikov and Andrei Borissenko. The first to enter the ISS was Novitski, followed by Pesquet and finally Whitson,
After the separation of the capsule MS-03 of the third floor of the legendary spacecraft to be placed in orbit 200 km of the Earth about nine minutes after lift-off, the Thursday, the crew spent more than 48 hours on the small module.
For the coupling, on the night of Saturday, the ship was placed at the same height as the ISS, moving at 28,000 km/h, 400 km above the earth.
In the six months that remain on-board facilities, the French Thomas Pesquet should be done at least 62 experiments for the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Centre of Space Studies (Cnes, France). You must also carry out other 55 experiments in collaboration with the space agencies, american, canadian and japanese.
The French will consider the impact of the absence of gravity on the muscles human, an analysis whose results can help to heal the myopathies. Test technologies that could revolutionize the water purification systems or materials to self-cleaning that can be used in hospitals.
The american Peggy Whitson will conduct experiments about the impact of light on the sleep cycle, while the Russian Oleg Novitski held more than 50 scientific tests commissioned by the space agency of your country, Roscosmos.
The commander aboard the Soyuz, Oleg Novitski, has great experience in the space. This expiloto of the Russian Air Force, 45 years of age and who has just become a father, he spent five months at the international space station, in 2012 and 2013.
Peggy Whitson (56 years) accumulated 376 days in space, and totals six departures extravehicular. Its first flight dates back to 2002, and already has two stays on the ISS.
on The 24th of April, it will surpass the record of days in the space of an american astronaut, held currently by Jeff Williams, with 534 days. In February it will become the first woman to have been at the forefront of the ISS on two occasions.
Thomas Pesquet, a expiloto line 38, the tenth French in space travel and the first since 2008, is the youngest of the team.
The transport of each astronaut cost $ 71 million in the capsule Soyuz, which can only move to three crew members each time.
The ISS is inhabited for fifteen years continuously.
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