Space Shuttle Atlantis docked to Harmony on November 18, 2009, at 11:51 AM EST. The hatchway between Atlantis and the International Space Station opened at 1:18 PM EST. STS-129 has three EVAs scheduled.
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STS-129 Space Shuttle Atlantis launched on November 16, 2009, at 2:28 PM EST. The members of the crew are Commander Charlie Hobaugh, Pilot Barry Wilmore, astronauts Leland Melvin, Mike Foreman, Robert Satcher and Randy Bresnik, all mission specialists.
A new component of the International Station, the Mini-Research Module 2 or Poisk (the Russian term for search, seek, and explore), docked to the station on November 12, 2009, at 10:41 AM EST. The new module will serve as docking port for Soyuz and Progress spacecraft and as an airlock for spacewalks, and also provide space for scientific experiments.
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Amazing images of Earth….
A Rockot launch vehicle lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia on November 2, 2009, at 02:50 CET. Rockot carried to orbit two new ESA satellites: SMOS and PROBA-2.
The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission will provide global maps of moisture over the Earth’s landmasses and salinity over the oceans. PROBA-2 is a mission dedicated to the demonstration of innovative technologies. PROBA-2 payload consists of scientific instruments that will make observations of the Sun in the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum and will measure certain properties of the plasma surrounding the spacecraft.
The H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) was unberthed from the ISS on October 31, 2009. The HTV is scheduled to re-enter the Earth\’s atmosphere on November 2, 2009.
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