Expedition 29 members Mike Fossum, Satoshi Furukawa, and Sergei Volkov left the International Space Station onboard the Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft on November 21, 2011. They returned after spending more than five months aboard the International Space Station.
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The data obtained by NASA\’s Goldstone Solar System Radar was used to generate a 28-frame movie of the 2005 YU55 asteroid. On November 8, 2011, 2005 YU55 passed at 0.85 lunar distances from Earth. The asteroid was discovered on December 28, 2005, by Robert McMillan.
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The images were captured by Opportunity\’s cameras during the three-year journey from Victoria crater to Endeavour crater.
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Soyuz TMA-22 docks to the International Space Station two days after liftoff from Baikonur. Anton Shkaplerov, Anatoly Ivanishin, and Dan Burbank join the crew already at the station.
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NASA dixit:
“NASA is focusing its 50 years of launch experience on hardware and systems that will revolutionize future processing and liftoffs. Instead of developing complex infrastructure centered on one vehicle, the 21st Century Ground Support Systems Program is building facilities, launch platforms and other structures that assemble, prepare and launch many kinds of rockets and spacecraft. The approach is expected to make NASA\’s Kenendy Space Center a multi-use spaceport suitable for commercial missions, sending astronauts to the International Space Station and eventually flights to distant space destinations including Mars.”
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A Soyuz-FG launch vehicle rolled out with Soyuz TMA-22 on November 11, 2011. Soyuz TMA-22 lifted off on November 13 from Baikonur Cosmodrome with Expedition 29 crew members Anton Shkaplerov, Anatoly Ivanishin, and Dan Burbank.
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