 Russian Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft landed.
On November 19, 2012 at 01:53 UTC the Russian "Soyuz TMA-05M” landing capsule landed safely at a distance of 85 kilometers to North-East from the city of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan.
photos by NASA
The spacecraft delivered to Earth the 3 members of ISS’s Expedition 33 – Russian cosmonauts Yuri Malenchenko, American astronaut Sunita Williams and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide.
They spent in space 126 days, 23 hours, 13 minutes and 27 seconds.
Three other ISS crew members – Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin as well as American astronaut Kevin Ford - remained in orbit aboard the Int
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Russian Soyuz TMA-05M undocked from ISS.
On November 18, 2012 at 22:26 UTC (November 19 at 02:26 Moscow time) the Russian "Soyuz TMA-05M” spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station to deliver to Earth the 3 members of Expedition 33 – Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, American astronaut Sunita Williams and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide
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Astronauts performed spacewalk to fix space station’s cooling system.
On November 01, 2012 American astronaut Sunita Williams and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide performed a successful six-hour and 38-minute spacewalk to bypass a suspect solar array radiator.
Williams and Hoshide successfully reconfigured ammonia coolant lines to bypass a presumed leak in a radiator used to cool electrical components in one of the space station's solar array modules. A spare radiator then was successfully deployed to take over cooling.
This was the 166th spacewalk devoted to station assembly and maintenance since construction began in 1998.
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Russian Progress M-17M launch.
On October 31, 2012 at 07:41 UTC the Russian "Progress M-17M” unmanned supply spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The spacecraft is to deliver about 2.4 tons of supplies, including fuel components, oxygen, food, water and scientific equipment, to the crew of six aboard the International Space Station.
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Dragon splashed down.
On October 28 at 19:22 UTC the "Dragon” unmanned supply spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean in a distance of about 400 kilometers from California seaside. The commercial capsule built by SpaceX delivered to Earth nearly one ton of precious experiment samples and other gear from the International Space Station.
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“Dragon” departed space station for Earth.
On October 28, 2012 the "Dragon” unmanned supply spacecraft was undocked from the International Space Station. American astronaut Sunita Williams and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide undocked the spacecraft from the station by using the "Canadarm-2” robotic system at 13:27 UTC.
The "Dragon” will deliver scientific samples and a variety of equipment to Earth.
The California-based SpaceX company will steer its unmanned capsule to a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, a couple hundred miles off the Baja California coast.
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Russian Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft docked to the ISS.
On October 25, 2012 at 12:29 UTC the "Soyuz TMA-06M” spacecraft docked with the Russian "Poisk” module of the International Space Station.
The Soyuz TMA-06M delivered three new members of Expedition 33 to the ISS, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin as well as American astronaut Kevin Ford.
The hatches between the spacecraft and the station were opened at 15:04 UTC.
The new comers joined current ISS expedition members - Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, American astronaut Sunita Williams and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide to form Expedition 33 crew of 6 members.
This is the first mission for Novitsky and Tarelkin, while Ford flew to the ISS on board a US Space Shuttle in 2009.
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Russia launched Soyuz TMA-06M manned spacecraft.
On October 23, 2012 at 10:51 UTC the Russian "Soyuz TMA-06M” 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 Oleg Novitskiy (center); flight-engineer-1, Russian cosmonaut Evgeny Tarelkin (right); flight-engineer-2, American astronaut Kevin Ford (left).
Photo by the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre.
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Dragon docked to Space Station.
On October 10, 2012 the "Dragon” unmanned supply spacecraft arrived to the International Space Station.
American astronaut Sunita Williams and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide have used the 17-meter Canadarm robot arm to grab the Dragon spacecraft at 11:56 UTC and pulled it to the station, completing the operation at 13:03 UTC.
The privately-owned reusable Dragon spacecraft carried to the station more than 450 kg of supplies.
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