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May 30, 2011. Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia.
At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-02M transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.
Soyuz TMA-02M transport manned vehicle was docked with a transfer compartment in the Spacecraft Assembly and Testing Facility.
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May 29, 2011. Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia.
At Baikonur launch site the preparations continue for the launch of Soyuz TMA-02M transport manned vehicle under the International Space Station program.
Soyuz TMA-02M 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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May 26, 2011. Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia.
The prime and backup crews for the ISS-28/29 initiated a final training phase in the processing facility.
Today a meeting of Technical Management was held where a decision to fill the Soyuz TMA-02M
spacecraft with propellant components and compressed gases was accepted.
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May 25, 2011. Baikonur launch site, branch office of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia.
Primary (Michael Fossum (NASA, USA),
Volkov Sergei (Roscosmos, Russia)
and Furukawa Satoshi (JAXA, Japan))
and backup (Pettit Donald (NASA, USA),
Kononenko Oleg (Roscosmos, Russia)
and Andre Kuipers (ESA, The Netherlands))
crews of the Soyuz TMA-02M transportation spacecraft arrived to the Baikonur launch site. At the airport they
were met by members of the State Commission and Technical Management.
Commanders of the crews reported on their readiness for pre-flight training and Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft acceptance.
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May 24, 2011. S.P. Korolev RSC Energia - MCC-M, Korolev, Moscow Region.
At 06:27 AM, Moscow Time, Soyuz TMA-20 descent vehicle made a soft landing in the designated landing area to the East of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan. All the operations associated with the descent, search and landing of the descent vehicle went normally.
Russian cosmonaut Dmitriy
Kondratiev (commander of ISS-27 and Soyuz TMA-20), NASA astronaut
Catherine Coleman and ESA
astronaut Paolo Nespoli have
completed their mission to the International Space Station (ISS)
under the program of Expedition ISS-27.
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May 18, 2011. S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Korolev, Moscow Region.
The General Designer Review Board devoted to the Russian Segment of the International Space Station was held at OAO S.P. Korolev Rocket & Space Corporation Energia under the chairmanship of V.A. Lopota, the Corporation President and General Designer.
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May 17, 2011. Russian Segment of the International Space Station.
Answers to the questionnaire on the Korolev's Planet site sent in by participants in the Great Start experiment have been delivered onboard ISS RS (sent onboard ISS RS were only those answers, which were sent in before April 27, 2011).
Cosmonauts Dmitri Kondratiev, Alexander Samokutyaev and Andrei Borisenko examined the answers to the questionnaire.
Your answers did not leave the cosmonauts indifferent and their opinions differed! Each of the cosmonauts named their winning answers to the questionnaire.
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May 5, 2011. S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Korolev, Moscow Region.
S.P. Korolev Rocket-Space Corporation Energia goes ahead with the activities aimed at solving pressing social problem to provide its employees with a modern comfortable housing.
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May 5, 2011. S.P. Korolev RSC Energia - MCC-M, Korolev, Moscow Region.
Twenty five years ago, on May 5, 1986, a unique operation was undertaken: the world's first orbital transfer of manned space vehicle Soyuz T-15 (commander Leonid Kizim, flight engineer Vladimir Solovyov) from one space station to other space station and back.
RSC Energia's management congratulates the participants involved in works on the interorbital transfer "Mir" - "Salyut-7" - "Mir" by manned space vehicle on this significant date!
We extend our special congratulations to pilot-cosmonaut Vladimir Alexeyevich Solovyov who had performed that historical flight!
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