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In October 2012, Soyuz TMA-06M delivered three crewmembers to the station to increase to six Expedition 33. This was the first launch from Pad 31/Site 6 at Baikonur since Soyuz T12 in July 1984. Its use now was because of the refurbishment of Pad 1/Site 5, known as ‘Gagarin’s Start’.
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ESA Astronaut Paulo Nespoli explained this to the author at a talk in Cork, Ireland, in July 2018.
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This was the third time an Olympic torch was launched into space but the first time it was taken on an EVA. The prior occasions were STS-78 in 1996 ahead of that year’s Atlanta summer games and STS-101 in 2000 ahead of the Sydney summer games.
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The MAI No.6 logo also appeared on Tyurin’s Soyuz TMA-9 patch.
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In fact, Orbital Sciences Cygnus CRS Orb-1 did not launch in December, it was delayed to 9 January 2014.
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A Cygnus spacecraft had arrived in October and been successfully berthed by the Canadarm2 during a demonstration flight.
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At least until the 9th CRS vessel, which was named after J. R. Thompson, who was the fifth director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and subsequently CEO of Orbital Sciences.
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Cygnus is captured and berthed like the Dragon and HTV. Progress and ATV perform automatic docking. Dragon is the only ISS cargo ship that does not burn up on re-entry, and so can be used to return cargo to Earth.
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As noted earlier, even in space the IT guys recommend that you, “Turn it off and on again.”
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O’Sullivan, J. (2019). Soyuz TMA-11M, Expeditions 38 and 39. In: Japanese Missions to the International Space Station. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04534-0_12
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