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Soyuz TMA-12M was expected to fly the recently introduced, 4-orbit, 6-hour rendezvous but when the third maneuver did not go as intended, Mission Control told the crew to switch to the older 2-day rendezvous. They successful docked with the station on 27 March 2014.
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He retired from the military in order to take his JAXA post because active military personnel are not allowed to work in the civilian space agency.
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JAXA’s 1st Astronaut Group but the 5th group to join NASDA/JAXA.
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Backup candidate Norishige Kanai was added to the group in September 2009.
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According to Robert Pearlman of collectSPACE.com , Yui was inspired by the movie The Right Stuff, based on Tom Wolfe’s book of the same title, to apply to be an astronaut. In the book and the movie, the question “Are you a turtle?” is asked a number of times in public situations. This was a prank amongst the Mercury astronauts because the desired answer was rude.
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Six crew and three visitors. Due to the almost ‘year-long’ mission, an old tradition was revived, with Sergey Volkov of Russia, Andreas Mogensen of ESA, and Aidyn Aimbetov of KazCosmos delivering a fresh Soyuz ‘lifeboat’ for use by Kelly and Korniyenko. Mogensen and Aimbetov returned in Soyuz TMA-16M.
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The ‘year-long’ mission actually lasted 343 days.
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Scott and Mark Kelly were both US Navy aviators who reached the rank of Captain. Both were selected as part of NASA Astronaut Group 16 in 1996. Both have flown in space four times. Both have been Pilot and Commander of Space Shuttle missions. Only Scott has flown on Soyuz capsules and commanded the ISS.
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The location of the Quest airlock did not require this precaution during an EVA from the US segment.
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The first Dane in space.
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It was released in April 2016 as A Beautiful Planet, directed by Toni Meyers and narrated by Jennifer Lawrence. On IMDB, the cast list includes Samantha Cristoforetti, Scott Kelly, Kjell Lindgren, Anton Shkaplerov, and Terry Virts.
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Orbital Sciences merged with Alliant Techsystems (ATK) in February 2015. In June 2018, Northrop Grumman purchased Orbital ATK, made it a division of the parent company and it was renamed Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems.
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Although recruited for Project Mercury, owing to a medical issue Deke Slayton was unable to fly in space until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975.
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O’Sullivan, J. (2019). Soyuz TMA-17M, Expeditions 44 and 45. In: Japanese Missions to the International Space Station. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04534-0_13
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