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NASA dixit:

“Expedition 37 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin, NASA Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano landed safely on the steppe of Kazakhstan on November 11, local time. The trio completed 166 days in space since launching in late May. Returning to Earth with the crew was the Olympic torch for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The torch was delivered to the station November 7 for its brief stay by Mikhail Tyurin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA and Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.”

 


 

NASA dixit:

“The Soyuz spacecraft and its booster were moved to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a railcar November 5 for final preparations before launch to the International Space Station on November 7. The Soyuz TMA-11M carried Expedition 38/39 Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of the Russian Federal Space Agency, NASA Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio and Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to the space station.”

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NASA dixit:

“The Russian Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft, with Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency, NASA Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano aboard, changed parking spaces at the International Space Station November 1. The crew undocked the vehicle from the Rassvet module on the Earth-facing side of the Russian segment of the complex and redocked it 20 minutes later at the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module. The maneuver opened the Rassvet port for the November 7 arrival of three new crew members for station operations. Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano will depart the station in the Soyuz TMA-09M on November 10, for a landing on November 11 on the steppe of Kazakhstan.”

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On October 25, 2013, a Proton-M/Breeze-M launch vehicle lifted off from Launch Complex Area 200, Baikonur, with the telecommunications satellite Sirius FM-6.

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The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is a NASA mission which will observe the Sun for over five years. Launched on February 11, 2010, the observatory is part of the Living With a Star (LWS) program. The goal of the LWS program is to develop the scientific understanding necessary to effectively address those aspects of the connected Sun–Earth system directly affecting life and society. The goal of the SDO is to understand the influence of the Sun on the Earth and near-Earth space by studying the solar atmosphere on small scales of space and time and in many wavelengths simultaneously. SDO has been investigating how the Sun\’s magnetic field is generated and structured, how this stored magnetic energy is converted and released into the heliosphere and geospace in the form of solar wind, energetic particles, and variations in the solar irradiance.

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NASA dixit:

“After launching earlier in the day in their Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 37/38 Soyuz Commander
Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins arrived at the International Space Station Sept. 26 after a six-hour rendezvous, docking their craft to the Poisk module on the Russian segment of the complex.”

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