Despite a bug with a solar regalia failing to deploy on Soyuz , three more astronauts arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday . Mission 41 is officially underway now that the station crew is back up to six people . The post is also once again at maximum capacitance with five docked spacecraft .
Top image : Soyuz TMA-14 M rocketlaunching at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan . credit : NASA / Joel Kowsky
Alexander Samokutyaev [ bottom ] , Barry Wilmore [ center ] and Elena Serova [ top ] , waving farewell prior to boarding for launching . mental image creditNASA / Joel Kowsky
Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev and Flight Engineers Barry Wilmore and Elena Serova blasted off from Kazakhstan at 3:57 pm Eastern time .
The launching and comer of unexampled crowd for the International Space Station on Thursday had a brief technical hiccup when a solar raiment on the Soyuz spacecraft fail to deploy . The spacecraft gang inform the post , “ We ’re take flight with one wing down . ” Aside from the failed regalia deployment , the burns run perfectly , accept the rocket on the myopic route to the stationand arrive by 9:44 premier .
That small red streak hidden behind the#Dragonsolar raiment is the Soyuz launching.pic.twitter.com/YfeyDaYxfW
— Reid Wiseman ( @astro_reid)September 25 , 2014
The raiment popped out after dock at the station . Both NASA and Roscosmos are report no damage or business with the craft , which will eventually come back Samokuyaev , Wilmore , and Serova back to Earth . After tying up , pressurizing , and complete checks , the crosshatch open up at 1:04 am .
A view of the Soyuz during its approach to#ISSw/ its port solar raiment not deploy . gang now dock to station.pic.twitter.com/qjOOu6u0ir
— NASA ( @NASA)September 26 , 2014
Awesome view of the Soyuz with only one raiment deployed . fly by the best!pic.twitter.com/2V6FaypPtW
— Reid Wiseman ( @astro_reid)September 27 , 2014
Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova , and NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore joined cosmonaut and ISS Commander Max Suraev , NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman , and ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst already on the station . Now the place work party is back up to six members afterthe departure ofSteve Swanson , Alexander Skvortsov , and Oleg Artemyev on September 11th .
From left to right , Alexander Gerst , Max Suraev , and Reid Wiseman wait the arrival of their sashay 41 crewmates . Image source : NASA
Serova is the first distaff astronaut to reside on the post . After sensitive audience ask her how she ’ll do her hair in microgravity and if her daughter will drop her , she already bring on appropriately infuriate responsesby asking if they would ask the same questions of her male colleague . If you ’re now curious aboutmanaging hair in microgravity , NASA astronautKaren Nyberg bring forth a video on that washables hair during Expedition 36 .
If we ’re talk about spaceman tomentum trend , Barry Wilmore pay back his pilus shorten at the Cosmonaut Hotel on the Tuesday before launch . Image credit : NASA / Dr. Peter Bauer
enrapture Soyuz to the launch pad . look-alike credit : NASA / Aubrey Gemignani
Along with the spaceman , Soyuz also channel zebrafish into field as part ofan experiment in keep up muscle mass in miserable soberness . Astronauts will be observing the Pisces , monitoring the growth of seedling , and otherwiseconducting an assortment of experimentsduring the mission ’s six calendar month length .
Soyuz rollout at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in the days lead up to set up . Image credit : NASA / Joel Kowsky
Mission 41will retain until the departure of Suraev , Wiseman , and Gerst on November 9th while Samokutyaev , Serova , and Wilmore remain on the station for Mission 42 .
All six astronauts . look-alike credit entry : NASA tv set
Thestation is back at its current maximum bring down capacitywith five space vehicle docked to assorted position . Along with the two Soyuz capsules for that will yield their respective astronauts to the planet , the place has three consignment transporters : Progress 56,ATV-5 Georges Lemaître , and theDragon capsule that arrived on Tuesday .
Canadarmsnaking out to snare the Dragon . Image quotation : NASA / ESA
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