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Three New ISS Expedition 56 Crew Members Launch

By Marc Boucher
NASA Watch
June 6, 2018
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Three New ISS Expedition 56 Crew Members Launch

Soyuz Launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome with Three New ISS Crew Members (with video)
Three crew members are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7:12 a.m. EDT Wednesday (5:12 p.m. Baikonur time).
The Soyuz spacecraft carrying Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency), and Sergey Prokopyev of the Russian space agency Roscosmos is scheduled to dock to the space station’s Rassvet module at 9:07 a.m. Friday, June 8. Coverage of docking will begin at 8:15 a.m. on NASA Television and the agency’s website, followed at 10:30 a.m. by coverage of the opening of hatches between the spacecraft and station.

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2 responses to “Three New ISS Expedition 56 Crew Members Launch”

  1. Matthew Black says:
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    It’s a pity that Jeanette Epps didn’t get to be on this Expedition. But much luck to Serena Aunon-Chancellor anyway; I’m sure she’ll do a fine job.

  2. Steve Pemberton says:
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    First time (that I know of) that they had an external camera view during launch. There was a prior Fregat launch that had an external camera but I think this was the first for a manned Soyuz launch. The camera was mounted on the orbital module looking downward. The external view started a few seconds after fairing separation. For some reason because of the camera angle you couldn’t see the core stage drop away but you could see two of the three connecting ring pieces falling away. Although later there was a clear view of the third stage falling away.

    One other point of interest was seeing how much roll oscillation there was during launch. Since the camera is fixed to the spacecraft the visual appearance was of the ground below oscillating back and forth. I would imagine that would be felt by cosmonauts/astronauts but I don’t remember hearing any of them mention it.

    I did sort of miss getting to see the little talisman floating around when they reached orbit. They only showed cockpit views during the first couple minutes of the launch.