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Date: May 8, 2015 at 10:04:55 PM CDT
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May 08, 2015 12:39

 

Soyuz TMA-15M crew to stay on ISS for one month longer, return to Earth on June 11 - source (Part 2)

MOSCOW. May 8 (Interfax-AVN) - The mission program of the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft crew currently working onboard the International Space Station (ISS) has been adjusted following the failed launch of the Progress M-27M re-supply ship and the crew members will return to the Earth on June 11 instead of May 14, a space rocket sector source told Interfax-AVN.

"It has been decided that Russia's Anton Shkaplerov, Samantha Cristoforetti of Italy and American Terry Virts will stay onboard the International Space Station for about one month longer. The Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft with them onboard is expected to land in Kazakhstan on June 11," he said.

Such a decision was adopted in response to changes made to the ISS manned and unmanned missions program after the loss of the Progress M-27M cargo carrier on April 28, he said.

The crew currently working onboard the ISS includes Russian cosmonauts Shkaplerov, Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Korniyenko, Cristoforetti, as well as NASA astronauts Virts and Scott Kelly. Shkaplerov, Cristoforetti and Virts were to return to the Earth on May 14, leaving behind Padalka, Korniyenko and Kelly.

The May 26 launch of Russia's Soyuz TMA-17M manned spacecraft has been postponed pending the completion of an inquiry into the Progress accident.

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Launch of manned spacecraft with next ISS crew postponed — source

May 07, 18:21 UTC+3
The launch has been moved from May 26 to June 11

MOSCOW, May 7. /TASS/. The launch of the manned spacecraft Soyuz TMA-17M with the crew of the next mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has been postponed till June 11, a source in the space rocket industry has told TASS.

"The launch has been moved from May 26 to June 11," the source said.

A session of an interdepartmental commission was scheduled at Star City outside Moscow for Friday to approve the main and backup crews. However, sources from the Cosmonaut Training Centre told Tass that the session and a pre-flight news conference had been postponed. The reasons were not specified.

The main crew of a new mission scheduled to go to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft comprises Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Kimiya Yui and NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren.

The back-up crew consists of Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, European Space Agency astronaut Timothy Peake (UK) and NASA astronaut Timothy Kopra.

 

Russia to adjust program of flights to space station - source

May 08, 3:34 UTC+3
The proposal was forwarded by a Roscosmos working group and has not been approved yet

MOSCOW, May 8. /TASS/. Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos plans to adjust the program of flights to the International Space Station (ISS) due to the recent accident involving the Progress M-27M spacecraft, a rocket and space industry source told TASS.

"It is suggested that the return from orbit of the expedition which is currently there be postponed from May 14 to June, then, in late June - early July, a Progress cargo spacecraft be blasted off to the ISS, and then, in the last ten days of July, a manned Soyuz launch be made," the source said.

He said the proposal was forwarded by a Roscosmos working group and has not been approved yet.

However, the source said, in connection with the fact that according to preliminary conclusions of the state commission, the Progress accident was caused by an emergency situation at the third stage of the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket, more time will be needed to check already manufactured rockets.

The Progress M-27M cargo spacecraft was launched on April 28 from the Baikonur space center Russia leases from Kazakhstan on a Soyuz carrier rocket. The rocket took the spacecraft to a higher orbit than required to dock with the International Space Station.

After a few unsuccessful attempts to get control of the spacecraft, experts gave up the idea. The Progress was taking food, oxygen and other cargos to the ISS crew.

 

 

 

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