Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
A Soyuz Spacecraft Approaches the Space Station
Explanation:
Last month, a Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft docked with the International Space Station. The spacecraft was launched [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] a few days earlier from the Baikonur Cosmodrome [ http://en.wikipedia…] in Kazakhstan [ http://www.cia.gov/…]. Pictured above [ http://spaceflight.…], the approaching Soyuz spacecraft [ http://www.russians…] carried the new Expedition 12 crew [ http://www.nasa.gov…] to the Earth-orbiting International Space Station [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] (ISS), as well as fee-paying spaceflight participant [ http://www.spaceadv…]. The Expedition 12 [ http://www.nasa.gov…] crew is expected to stay on the ISS for about six months, while replacing the Expedition 11 crew [ http://www.nasa.gov…] who had been on the station for about six months themselves. About a week after this image was taken, the Expedition 11 crew returned [ http://www.nasa.gov…] to Earth in the Soyuz capsule, along with the spaceflight participant. The Expedition 12 [ http://space.com/mi…] crew will carry out repairs on the ISS [ http://www.nasa.gov…], explore new methods of living in space, and conduct research in space [ http://www.nasa.gov…] including a kidney stone [ http://kidney.niddk…] experiment [ http://www.nasa.gov…].
Credit and Copyright:
ISS Expedition 11 [ http://spaceflight.…] Crew, NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/]
facet_where:
Kazakhstan
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_what:
Earth
facet_what:
spacecraft
facet_what:
International Space Station (ISS)
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap051101

A Soyuz Spacecraft Approaches the Space Station
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