Soyuz Crew Gets A Safe Arrival At The Space Station

Soyuz Crew Gets A Safe Arrival At The Space Station

2nd January 2010

Three of the astronauts have safely arrived at the International Space Station and now ready to go on a mission, which will be making them to do the construction work as well as the scientific research that would be on the orbiting platform. This crew has the astronauts such as Oleg Kotov- the Russian cosmonaut, T.J. Creamer- an astronaut of NASA and also Soichi Noguchi- the astronaut from the Aerospace Exploration Agency of Japan. The rocket has been made in Russia and is called Soyuz that had been launched in Kazakhstan from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. This crew had been linked up with 22 members of the Expedition who had already aboard the ISS, which includes Jeff Williams of NASA who is the station commander and also the cosmonaut Max Suray, who will be acting as the station flight engineer.

Two of the cosmonauts named Suraey and Kotov, have been slated to conduct the spacewalks in the month of January from the airlock Pirs, which is considered to be a part of the Russian segment of ISS. Also in the month of January, Suraey and Williams will be repositioning the docked spacecraft of Soyuz from the end of the Zvezda service module of the station towards the latest module of Poisk.