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More People Leave Earth for Space

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
November 23, 2014
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Expedition 42 Launches on Time to International Space Station
“The Soyuz TMA-15M launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station at 4:01 p.m. EST (3:01 a.m. on Nov. 24 Baikonur time). Terry Virts of NASA, Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency now are safely in orbit.”

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5 responses to “More People Leave Earth for Space”

  1. TheBrett says:
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    Good old Soyuz, reliable as ever.

  2. Paul Newton says:
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    Soyuz is reliable because the Russians, like Henry Ford, figured out the secret.: build them on an assembly line.

    The Soyuz boosters are all common components between their main stage and the booster stage, so for every booster that is built 5 similar stages are produced, which means that people develop an expertise in their tasks. The Soyuz and Progress spacecraft, likewise are similar so that every year they go through the build process four or five times. It increase the expertise of the personnel while reducing the cost and the time.

    The US does not seem to learn and builds everything as a one-off, in the case of Orion no more than one build every couple of years. Little expertise is developed, little continuity from one build to the next, costs stay high, safety is compromised.

  3. J C says:
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    I like the headline. Wish it were more than three at a time 🙂

  4. dogstar29 says:
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    I agree that the Soyuz is pretty reliable, but there have been failures. On two occasions the pyrobolt separation between the descent module and the service module failed after deorbit burn and the modules entered the atmosphere together, which would have been fatal. In both cases aerodynamic forces tore the remaining bolt loose at the very last minute.

  5. Jafafa Hots says:
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    No need for the word Central in there…