Post Tagged with: “Anton Shkaplerov”

ISS Crew Lands Safely

Burbank being carried to the medical tent after being extracted from the Soyuz (Credits: Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP - Getty Images).

Source: NASA The Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft carrying Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin landed in Kazakhstan Friday April 27 at 7:45 a.m. EDT. They undocked from the International Space Station at 4:18 a.m. officially ending their stay.  The Soyuz performed a deorbit burn at 6:49 a.m. before the descent module separated from the rest [...]

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ISS Spacewalk Scheduled for February 16

Astronauts Jerry L. Ross and James H. Newman on an EVA in the first ISS assembly mission (Credits: NASA).

Source: NASA Two cosmonauts will conduct a six-hour spacewalk Thursday, Feb. 16, to continue outfitting the International Space Station. NASA Television will broadcast the spacewalk beginning at 7:45 a.m. CST.  Expedition 30 Russian Flight Engineers Oleg Kononenko and Anton Shkaplerov will move one of the two Strela cranes from the Pirs docking compartment to begin preparing for its replacement next [...]

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New Crew Boards International Space Station

ISS Expedition 29 crew Dan Burbank, Anton Shkaplerov, Anatoly Ivanishin, Mike Fossum, Satoshi Furukawa, and Sergei Volkov. (Credits: NASA).

On November 16, the Soyuz TMA-22 carrying three Expedition 29 crew members docked with the International Space Station. The new crew brings the Expedition 29 to a full complement of six. Flight Engineers NASA astronaut Dan Burbank, Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin, and Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov set to work after an initial briefing. Burbank is participating in his third ISS rotation. Ivanishin [...]

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