 Dragon spacecraft undocking and landing.
On March 25, 2013 the space station astronauts closed the hatches leading into the "Dragon” unmanned supply spacecraft. On March 26, 2013 the station's robotic arm removed the capsule from a berthing port on the complex. Controlled by ground controllers and then astronaut Thomas Marshburn, the robotic arm let go of the "Dragon” resupply vehicle at 10:56 UTC.
On March 26, 2013 at 16:34 UTC the "Dragon” capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at about 360 kilometers west of Baja California, Mexico.
Dragon's return date, originally scheduled for March 25, was postponed due to bad weather near its targeted splashdown site in the Pacific Ocean.
The Dragon delivered to Earth about 1200 kilograms (2668 pounds) of cargo.
It was the "SpaceX CRS-2” mission. CRS means Commercial Resupply Services.
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Russian Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft landed.
On March 16, 2013 at 03:06 UTC the Russian "Soyuz TMA-06M” landing capsule landed safely at a distance of 50 kilometers to North from the city of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan.
photo by NASA
The spacecraft delivered to Earth the 3 members of ISS’s Expedition 34 – Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky (center), Yevgeny Tarelkin (left) and American astronaut Kevin Ford.
They spent in space 143 days, 16 hours, 14 minutes.
Three other ISS crew members – Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, Canadian astronaut Christopher Hadfield and American astronaut Thomas Marshburn - remained in orbit aboard the International Space Station as the Expedition 35 crew.
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Russian Soyuz TMA-06M undocked from ISS.
On March 15, 2013 at 23:43 UTC (March 16 at 03:43 Moscow time) the Russian "Soyuz TMA-06M” spacecraft undocked from the "Poisk” module of the International Space Station to deliver to Earth the 3 members of Expedition 34 – Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, Yevgeny Tarelkin and American astronaut Kevin Ford.
At first the undocking was to be performed on the late of night of March 14 but the bad weather conditions (freezing rain and low clouds) at the landing place forced the Russian space agency to postpone the undocking and landing of "Soyuz TMA-06M” - by one day.
After the undocking, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, Canadian astronaut Christopher Hadfield, and US astronaut Thomas Marshburn remained on the space station.
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Private “Dragon” spacecraft was docked to ISS.
On March 3, 2013 at 13:56 UTC the "Dragon” unmanned supply spacecraft was berthed to the Harmony module of the International Space Station.
Operating the Canadian-built robotic arm, US astronauts Kevin Ford and Thomas Marshburn grappled the privately-owned Dragon cargo ship at 10:31 UTC.
The astronauts handed over control of the lab's robotic arm, nicknamed Canadarm 2, for engineers in Houston and Canada to maneuver the Dragon spacecraft into position on the Earth-facing port of the space station's Harmony module.
It was the first time controllers on the ground used the arm to install a newly-arrived spacecraft on the space station.
The hatches between the newly arrived spacecraft and the Harmony module of the space station are scheduled to be opened on March 4. The capsule is scheduled to spend 22 days attached to the station.
It is the second of at least 12 flights to the ISS that SpaceX carries out under its $1.6 bill
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SpaceX launched Dragon to Space Station.
On March 01, 2013 at 15:10 UTC the "Falcon 9” rocket-carrier was launched from the Cape Canaveral US Air Force Station in Florida. The launch was performed by the "SpaceX” private company supported by the 45th Space Wing of US Air Force.
US private company SpaceX launched its "Dragon” unmanned space freighter on a second resupply mission to the International Space Station.
The Dragon spacecraft is carrying about a ton of supplies for the space station crew and for experiments being conducted aboard the ISS.
The space freighter is expected to dock with the Earth-facing port of the space station's Harmony module where it will remain for a few weeks while astronauts unload cargo and load the craft with experiment samples and equipment.
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Russian supply spacecraft docked to space station.
On February 11, 2013 at 20:35 UTC the Russian "Progress M-18M” unmanned supply spacecraft docked with the International Space Station. The docking was carried out in automatic regime to the "Pirs” module of the ISS. It is the third time for the Mission Control Center to use the fast-track docking instead of the traditional two-day trip.
The "Progress M-18M” delivered about 2500 kg of supplies, including fuel, food, water, oxygen and various scientific and sports equipment for the space station crew.
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Russia launched “Progress M-18M” spacecraft to Space Station.
On February 11, 2013 at 14:41 UTC the "Progress M-18M” unmanned supply spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station. The spacecraft was orbited by the "Soyuz-U” rocket-carrier on a six-hour trek to the orbital station.
Progress-M-18M is to deliver about 2500 kilograms of supplies, including food, water and scientific equipment, to a six-man crew onboard the space station.
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Russian Space Freighter Departs From Orbital Station.
On February 09, 2013 at 13:12 UTC the Russian Progress M-16M unmanned supply spacecraft undocked form the International Space Station.
Later at the same day the "Progress M-14M” spacecraft was deorbited. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft sank in the South part of the Pacific.
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Russian Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft docked to the ISS.
On December 21, 2012 at 14:08 UTC the "Soyuz TMA-07M” spacecraft docked with the Russian "Rassvet” module of the International Space Station.
The Soyuz TMA-07M delivered three new members of Expedition 34 to the ISS, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, Canadian astronaut Christopher Hadfield and American astronaut Thomas Marshburn.
The hatches between the spacecraft and the station were opened at 16:40 UTC.
The new comers joined current ISS expedition members - Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novit
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Russia launched Soyuz TMA-07M manned spacecraft.
On December 19, 2012 at 12:12 UTC the Russian "Soyuz TMA-07M” spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The space vehicle was orbited by the Russian "Soyuz-FG” rocket-carrier.
The spacecraft is piloted by 3 cosmonauts: Commander, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko (center); flight-engineer-1, Canadian astronaut Christopher Hadfield (right); flight-engineer-2, American astronaut Thomas Marshburn (left).
The space vehicle is to dock with the International Space Station on December 21, 2012. The crew will reach the ISS in a traditional 'long' trip, which will take two days, though a short trip is also possible.
Photo by the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre.
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