On July 10, 2011 at 15:07 UTC American Space Shuttle "Atlantis” (STS-135 flight) successfully docked to the International Space Station.
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Aboard the ISS the STS-135 crew (Christopher Ferguson, Douglas Hurley, Rex Walheim, Sandra Magnus) was welcomed by Expedition 28 members – Russian cosmonauts Aleksandr Samokutyaev, Andrey Borisenko, Sergey Volkov; American astronauts Ronald Garan and Michael Fossum; Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa. Now the station’s crew consists of 10 members.
On July 08, 2011 at 15:29 UTC the American Space Shuttle " Atlantis” (STS-135) was launched from Kennedy Space Center (LC39A), Florida, USA.
The crew consists of 4 American astronauts: Christopher Ferguson, Douglas Hurley, Rex Walheim, Sandra Magnus.
Atlantis' 12-day mission to the International Space Station is the final flight of the 30-year Space Shuttle Program. Atlantis will carry the "Raffaello” multipurpose logistics module containing a year's worth of supplies and spare parts for the orbital station and its crew.
On June 23, 2011 at 16:37 UTC the Progress M-11M unmanned supply spacecraft docked to the ISS. The spacecraft docked to the "Zvezda” ("Star”) module.
The spacecraft delivered more than 2600 kilograms of cargo, including oxygen, water, food to the International Space Station. Aboard the spacecraft there were several letters addressed to the ISS crew members.
On June 21, 2011 at 14:38 UTC the Russian Progress M-11M unmanned supply spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The spacecraft is to deliver more than 2.5 tons of cargoes, including oxygen, water, food (including green apples, lemons, oranges, onions and garlic) to the International Space Station.
The Progress M-11M is to dock with the ISS on June 23 at 16:37 UTC.
n June 20, 2011 the European Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-2), christened Johannes Kepler after the German astronomer and mathematician, separated from the International Space Station at 14:46 UTC. One minute later, after backing away from the station's Zvezda service module, the ATV fired thrusters to accelerate its departure.
The spacecraft is carrying more than 2,600 pounds of trash for the re-entry. Almost all the spacecraft will burn up in the atmosphere, but the hardiest components could survive to impact the Pacific Ocean.
On June 09, 2011 at 21:18 UTC (On June 10 at 01:18 Moscow time) the Russian"Soyuz TMA-02M” spacecraft docked to the International Space Station. The spacecraft docked to the Russian "Rassvet” module in automatic regime. The "Soyuz TMA-02M” crew (Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov; American astronaut Michael Fossum and Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa) will join the ISS crew members - Aleksandr Samokutyaev, Andrey Borisenko and Ronald Garan.
The ISS crew consists of 6 members now.
Soyuz TMA-02M is a new-series vehicle which undergoes flight testing. The spaceship is equipped with digital control systems.
On June 07, 2011 at 20:12 UTC (on June 08 at 00:12 Moscow time) the Russian "Soyuz TMA-02M” spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome.
The spacecraft is piloted by 3 cosmonauts: Commander, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov (center); flight-engineer, American astronaut Michael Fossum (left); flight-engineer, Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (right).(photo by the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre)
The space vehicle is to dock with the International Space Station on June 09.
On June 01, 2011 the "Endeavour” American Space Shuttle (STS-134) landed on runway 15 at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA.
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The shuttle’s touchdown was at 06:34:51 UTC. The full stop was at 06:35:36 UTC.
Mark Kelly, Gregory Johnson, Andrew Feustel, Edward Michael Fincke, Gregory Chamitoff, Roberto Vittori (Italy) returned to Earth.
Endeavour delivered the station's premier science experiment, Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer particle detector, and a pallet of spare parts intended to tide
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On May 27, 2011 American astronauts of the STS-134 crew Gregory Chamitoff and Michael Fincke performed a seven-hour, 24-minute spacewalk.
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This was the final spacewalk conducted by space shuttle astronauts. It also was the last of the four spacewalks for the STS-134 mission. The space walkers placed the shuttle's 50-foot inspection boom on the station's truss backbone to extend the reach of the lab's robot arm.
It was the 248th spacewalk U.S. astronauts have conducted. It was Fincke's ninth spacewalk. It was Chamitoff's second spac
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