** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **

[Cosimo]

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[Cosimo]

With SpaceX’s Dragon launch set for May 19 at 09:55 BST (04:55 EDT) some mission info:

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[Cosimo]

 

[Cosimo]

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Soyuz TMA-04M, Expedition 31 launch is at 04:01 BST tomorrow.

 

[Glaucus]

Any news on the reaction cooler test yet? Is it June they hope to complete these round of tests?

 

[Cosimo]

Expedition 31 (Soyuz TMA-04M) has successfully launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome:

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[PermaBanned]

Wow.

 

[Cosimo]

Wow.

Another:

 

[Cosimo]

Expedition 31 have arrived:

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[Cosimo]

Wow.

Even more wow:

 

[Cosimo]

The Atlantic magazine has an excellent set of images from the Russian space program. Enjoy:

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/05/star-city-and-the-baikonur-cosmodrome/100297/

 

[Cosimo]

The weather remains 70% favourable for SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft launch on Saturday at 09:55 BST. I'm sad to say that I'll be missing this one.

 

[PermaBanned]

Quite old, but i hadn't seen this one before. I find the audio strangely beautiful...

 

[philip2009]

Anyone else watch the SpaceX launch today? Things seemed to go OK up until the deployment of the solar panels at which point the coverage was brought to an end(I'm not suggesting something went wrong).

 

[Blinkz]

Yup just watched the launch, all seems well so far. Hopefully they dock on Friday!

 

[Cosimo]

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[anything I don't mind]

 

[Cosimo]

Update:

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Docking is tomorrow (May 25) at 13:06 BST (08:06 EDT)

 

[Cosimo]

All looking good for today’s grapple and berth:

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Departure will be on May 31:

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[Mik3]

Neil Armstrong has done a recent interview!

http://thebottomline.cpaaustralia.com.au/#episode1