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March 2010
March 31, 2010. Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia.
At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-18 transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.
A rollout of the Soyuz spacecraft from the assembly-test facility to the launch site was provided. The Soyuz-FG launch vehicle with the Soyuz TMA-18 transport spacecraft was erected on the launch pad. Operations under the launch minus two days program began.
The launch of the Soyuz-FG integrated launch vehicle with the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft to the ISS Orbital Complex is planned for April 2, 2010 at 08:04:34 Moscow time.
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A live video of the Soyuz-FG rocket blast-off is planned.
March 30, 2010. S.P.Korolev RSC Energia, Korolev, Moscow region.
By the Russian Federation Government Direction N 333-р "On Awarding the Russian Federation Government Prizes in the Field of Science and Technology in 2009" dated March 17, 2010, the Russian Federation Government Prizes for 2009 in the field of science and technology were awarded and titles of "the Prize Winner of the Russian Federation Government in the Field of Science and Technology" were awarded.
Among those awarded are the employees working for OAO RSC Energia after S.P. Korolev.
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March 30, 2010. Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia.
At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-18 transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.
In the LV Integration and Checkout Facility, the basic integration of the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle with the upper composite has been completed.
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A meeting of the Technical management under the chairmanship of RSC Energia President and General Designer V.A. Lopota and State commission was held. A decision on rollout of the launch vehicle with the Soyuz TMA-18 transport manned spacecraft to the launch facility and its preparation for launch planned for April 2, 2010 was adopted.
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March 29, 2010. Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia.
At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-18 transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.
In the assembly/test building primary (Alexander
Skvortsov, Mikhail
Kornienko (Roscosmos, Russia), Tracy
Caldwell Dyson (NASA, USA)) and backup (Andrei
Borisenko, Alexander
Samokutyaev (Roscosmos, Russia), Scott
Kelly (NASA, USA)) crews of the Soyuz TMA-18 transportation
spacecraft made a check inspection of the spacecraft in the
launch configuration and got acquainted with equipment to
be delivered and returned to the ground.
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Orbital module of the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle, containing the Soyuz TMA-18 manned spacecraft was transported from the spacecraft processing facility for the general integration with LV.
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March 27, 2010. Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia.
At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-18 transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.
Designers inspection of the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft was completed.
Payload shroud roll on to the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft was performed.
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March 25, 2010. Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia.
At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-18 transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.
Soyuz TMA-18 transport cargo vehicle was docked with a transfer compartment in the Spacecraft Assembly and Testing Facility.
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March 24, 2010. Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia.
At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-18 transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.
Soyuz TMA-18 transport manned vehicle fuelled with propellant components and compressed gases was delivered to the Spacecraft Assembly and Testing Facility for final processing operations.
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March 22, 2010. Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia.
The prime and backup crews for the ISS-23/24 initiated a final training phase at the Launch Site.
Alexander Skvortsov, Mikhail Kornienko (Roscosmos, Russia), Tracy Caldwell Dyson (NASA, USA), Andrei Borisenko, Alexander Samokutyaev (Roscosmos, Russia), Scott Kelly (NASA, USA) had training sessions onboard the spacecraft, acquainted with the onboard documentation and the content of cargoes launched but the prime crew also made a fitting of the Sokol-KB space suits and individual liners.
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Today a meeting of Technical Management was held where a decision to fill the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft with propellant components and compressed gases was accepted.
March 21, 2010. Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia.
Primary (SKVORTSOV Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Russia),
KORNIENKO Mikhail Borisovich (S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Russia), CALDWELL
DYSON Tracy (NASA, USA)) and backup (BORISENKO Andrei Ivanovich (S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Russia), SAMOKUTYAEV Aleksandr Mikhailovich (Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Russia), KELLY Scott Joseph (NASA, USA )) crews of the Soyuz TMA-18 transportation spacecraft arrived to the Baikonur launch site. At the airport they were met by members
of the State Commission and Technical Management.
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March 18, 2010. S.P. Korolev RSC Energia - MCC-M, Korolev, Moscow region.
The Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft descent module (DM) at 14:25, Moscow time, returned to the Earth. All DM descent, search and landing operations were performed normally.
Russian cosmonaut M. Suraev
(the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft commander) and NASA astronaut J. Williams
completed their flight to the International Space Station (ISS) under the ISS-21/22 program.
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March 18, 2010. S.P.Korolev RSC Energia, Korolev, Moscow region.
Forty five years ago, on March 18, 1965, mass media all over the world announced a news flash: "man went on a space walk for the first time in history".
It was our compatriot Alexei Leonov who went out on a space walk from Voskhod-2 spacecraft developed by our company (at the time known as Special Design Bureau No.1 headed by S.P.Korolev).
Dear colleagues, veterans, friends, partners, cosmonauts and astronauts, we congratulate you on the 45th anniversary of this remarkable event!
We wish you all, and, in particular, Alexei Leonov, pilot-cosmonaut and the first artist to have been to space, good health, success, happiness in your personal life, participation in new achievements in the development of space technologies, which make it possible for the mankind to expand their knowledge of the Universe!
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Congratulation to Twice Hero of the Soviet Union Flight Cosmonaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov
March 16, 2010. S.P.Korolev RSC Energia, Korolev, Moscow region.
The training sessions under the training program for the International Space Station (ISS) prime crew (ISS-24/25) were held at S.P. Korolev Rocket & Space Corporation Energia.
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March 12, 2010. S.P.Korolev RSC Energia, Korolev, Moscow region.
The General Designers' Council meeting devoted to the International Space Station Russian Segment was held at OAO S.P. Korolev Rocket-Space Corporation Energia under the chairmanship of V.A. Lopota, the President, General Designer of the Corporation.
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March 11, 2010. S.P.Korolev RSC Energia, Korolev, Moscow region.
In the S.P. Korolev Rocket & Space Corporation Energia the enlarged Scientific and Technical Board Meeting of Corporation, on which the Report "Distant and Near Universe. Structure. Originating. Development" made by M.Ya. Marov, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences was presented, took place.
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March 5, 2010. Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA - S.P.Korolev RSC Energia, Korolev, Moscow region, Russia.
Specialists from the S.P.Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia continue their work at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), FL, USA on the processing for launch of the Mini Research Module MRM1 (Rassvet).
At the SPPF facility of the Astrotech company (formerly Spacehab) stand-alone electrical tests and leak tests of the module and the airlock which is to be delivered on it have by now been completed.
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March 04-05, 2010. S.P.Korolev RSC Energia, Korolev, Moscow region.
The Museum of the S.P.Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia was used as a setting for filming some scenes in the new documentary on the history of space flight.
The eight-part miniseries under the working title "Our Cosmos" is being filmed by the company Studia 2B under the contract with TV company NTV.
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March 2, 2010. Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia.
At 00 hours 19 minutes Moscow Time, launch vehicle (LV) Proton-M together with Upper Stage (US) DM and three spacecraft (SC) GLONASS-M were launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome.
The launch objective is to augment the Russian group of global navigation satellite system GLONASS.
Under the Mission Program, US DM succeeded in these SC delivery to target near-earth orbit from low near-earth orbit where LV had delivered US with the three clustered SC.
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