New team introduction sneakers off active period at area station

WORLD ,CAPE CANAVERAL: A new worldwide team arrive at the Worldwide Area Position beginning Wednesday, throwing off a active six several weeks of perform at the revolving about outpost.


With expert cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko at the manages, a European Soyuz spacecraft docked at the expansive complicated at 12:52 a.m. EDT, finding yourself a two-day journey from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Flying along with him: U.S. astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams and Akihiko Hoshide of Asia Aerospace Discovery Organization.
The link-up was held as the Soyuz and the station were traveling 252 kilometers above northeast Kazakhstan.
"So, a sleek and unadventurous docking, by the publication," NASA journey commentator Rob Navias said.

The introduction was held on the 37th birthday of the ancient Apollo-Soyuz Analyze Project docking, which introduced together the U.S. and the former Communist Nation in a display of orbital detente.
Malnchenko, Williams and Hoshide signed up with European cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin, and U.S. astronaut Joe Acaba at the station.

Coming up on the station in the next six weeks: the appearance and leaving of European and Japoneses freight providers as well as U.S. and European spacewalks at the outpost.
A automatic Japoneses space freighter is planned to release at 10:06 p.m. Saturday from Tanegashima Area Middle in Asia. The automobile will reach the station September 27.
Then, a first: An unmanned European Advance freight service provider will release Aug. 1 from Baikonur Cosmodrome and reach the station six time later — after just four orbits. The single-day rendezvous is the test targeted at indicating a capability to create a same-day introduction at the station. The journey normally requires two times.

Also arriving up, two spacewalks within two weeks:
• Aug. 16: Padalka, the first three-time Worldwide Area Position leader, and Malenchencho, who is creating his fifth spaceflight, will venture outside the outpost to transfer a telescopic freight growth. The two also will set up safety trash protects outside the station's European command-and-control component, known as Zvezda, or "star."

• Aug. 30: Williams and Acaba will execute a spacewalk to substitute a U.S. energy changing device on the main truss of the outpost. The two also will lay cords to path energy to a new European lab component to be released to the station in overdue 2013.
"This is another powerful time," said Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's affiliate manager for individual exploration and functions.

"We believed when set up was done, and we were done developing this spectacular framework, factors would slowly down," he said. "But, not a chance, the capability to just remain wide, keep this automobile resupplied, carry up excellent analysis, and come back analysis, needs all these strategies."