The Russian Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle with the manned spacecraft S.P. Korolev launched to the ISS

Roskosmos today sent a new crew to the ISS, a Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle with the Soyuz MS-21 manned spacecraft S.P. Korolev was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The ship was put into orbit on a regular basis.

The rocket was launched at 18:55 Moscow time. time, after the estimated time Soyuz MS-21 was launched into orbit. The launch, stage separation, launch of the manned spacecraft into the target orbit, as well as the deployment of antennas and solar panels took place in the normal mode. The spacecraft's flight to the ISS is in a two-orbit orbit, docking will be carried out to the nodal module "Prichal" of the Russian segment of the ISS. As stated on the Roscosmos website, the docking is scheduled for 22:05 (±3 min).

It is emphasized that this launch is special, for the first time in the history of the ISS, a crew consisting entirely of professional cosmonauts - Oleg Artemiev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov - has been sent to it. The last time three professional cosmonauts went into space was in 1998 on the Soyuz TM-28 spacecraft.

Currently, there are seven people on the ISS, including two Russian cosmonauts - Anton Shkaplerov and Petr Dubrov, four NASA astronauts - Mark Vande Hai, Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron, as well as European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer.

On board the Soyuz MS-21, in addition to the crew, there are hygiene products and materials for experiments, consumables for the station, clothes and personal belongings of the astronauts, as well as fresh food and standard food rations.

Comments

[-Paul-]

I hope the TP-82, or at least the Makarovs, were issued to the crew.

[Cat Alexandrovich]

What for? Most of us will be there now. Russophobia will begin - they will simply throw Westerners overboard (except for a woman, of course).

[NIKN]

four NASA astronauts and an astronaut from the European Space Agency.

"There were 2 of ours + 3 flying, professionals. Now it's even. Although if this does not give the opportunity to use our toilets, when they clog their own, I don’t know what (it seems there was a precedent), then they will not survive, they will be asked to go overboard.

[SKVichyakow]

The mattress pads still need to somehow come down to the ground. Or parachute?

[NIKN]

Quote: SKVichyakow

The mattress pads still need to somehow come down to the ground. Or parachute?

Probably a paid return needs to be made, how much did they freeze us $?

[Bratkov Oleg]

And the Science module, by the way, has already turned the entire ISS in one place. Or around one place... Around the axis... Which is correct?

[Starover_Z]

Quote: SKVichyakow

The mattress pads still need to somehow come down to the ground. Or parachute?

In the latest news, it was reported that one Euro-American will be taken home (((

[tihonmarine]

Quote: NIKNN

"There were 2 of ours + 3 flying, professionals.

Professionals, preferably from the GRU special forces.

[NIKN]

It is not excluded, but whoever was think prepared according to the situation.

[-Paul-]

Read fantasy.
Burkatovsky. War 2020. First space war

[tihonmarine]

Quote: -Paul-

Read fantasy.
Burkatovsky. War 2020. First space war

But here it’s not fantasy, but reality, fascism has no boundaries, no limits.

[Emergency]

Have you seen this woman? She's as terrible as a mortal sin. Overboard too.

[Cat Alexandrovich]

Oh well, I looked at her photo, more or less normal, not great, but it will do. So let her fly, but where she flies - on board or overboard - she decides!

[Thrifty]

Emergency - for fishlessness in space, you will have to use a terrible !Bag on the head, and in a hammock .He will yell, dip into the latrine with a bag, that is, with his head

[Polite Moose]

Quote: Emergency

Have you seen this woman? She's as terrible as a mortal sin.

In a remote land and opa - a nightingale.

[tihonmarine]

Quote: Emergency

Have you seen this woman? She's as terrible as a mortal sin.

There are no ugly women, there is little vodka.

[fiv]

Their aunts are the most harmful, holes are drilled from idleness

[Polite Moose]

Quote: Cat Alexandrovich

(except women, of course)

But then throw it away.

[LAWNER]

Babu is also overboard .. Otherwise, some kind of sexism turns out

[EMMM]

No, there's a flamethrower on board! Burn everyone, even yourself

[abrakadabre]

No, there's a flamethrower on board! Burn everyone, even yourself

why flamethrower? There is enough combat screwdriver with a drill.

[EMMM]

Thanks for the dislikes.
You passed the test for not understanding the grotesque

[Kaufman]

I remembered the movie Armageddon)) "A gun in space ???

[host]

Which of the five foreigners on the ISS will we nightmare? space operation Z?

[gansales]

Quote from host

Which of the five foreigners on the ISS will we nightmare? space operation Z?

They will make Kalinka Malinka sing and dance for the camera on the ENTIRE planet!
And in the "mornings" sing the anthem of Russia and then rustle with a vacuum cleaner around the ISS (a joke of course, but they are obviously scared there))))

[Gardener91]

"Go!"

[max702]

But how did they pull on Rogozin ... Which launch is there without an accident?

[Dikson]

Can you tell me why this docking took place in manual mode, and not in automatic mode? What, in the new "Pier" something decided to take a day off and not receive guests? ))

[max702]

Unnecessary or unjustified risk. I see you have nothing more to get to the bottom of? Well what I was talking about..

[Dikson]

Since when did the trouble-free automatic docking of our vehicles, which had been worked out for decades, suddenly become an "unnecessary and unjustified risk" ?! As far as I know, it is the manual mode that is used in obvious emergency situations .. however, why am I telling you this? - you have already decided everything for yourself ..

[max702]

I see a specialist and the daughter of an astronaut and everything is not so simple? Do you consider manual docking something out of the ordinary? As I understand it, you don’t need to get to the bottom of this and such claims?

[Dikson]

Do you think you forgot to take your pills?

[slipped]

Quote: Dikson

Can you tell me why this docking took place in manual mode, and not in automatic mode? What, in the new "Pier" something decided to take a day off and not receive guests? ))

No one has ever docked to this docking station. Perhaps there is no contact on the connection in the right place. There, weightlessness and sometimes connectors with cables present surprises. They'll figure it out. And so it was easy to switch from one regular mode to another, so as not to slow down the docking.

[Dikson]

Thank you for your balanced and professional version, slipped .. By the way, Mr. Rogozin said today that the cosmodrome on the Kura will be "mothballed forever" .. plus, as I understand it, everyone is terribly upset by the disruption of the Martian European project for established political reasons ..

[slipped]

Quote: Dikson

By the way, Mr. Rogozin said today that the cosmodrome on the Kura will be "mothballed forever" ..

Three of our Soyuz-2 rockets and three Fregat upper stages remained there, which were previously purchased by Arianspace to launch their spacecraft. They don't know how to run them. Therefore, their spacecraft hung for a year or more, since their medium rocket Ariane-6 is not ready and has not been tested. Perhaps ours will later buy back our missiles and upper stages, if they agree.

Quote: Dikson

plus, as I understand it, everyone is terribly upset by the disruption of the Martian European project for established political reasons ..

Scientists are upset here, both ours and European ones. As well as hundreds of people from whom this project took 10 years of life. But... not all is lost If we now find money for the project, then we can implement it ourselves. There is a ground-based analogue of our landing module, which can be converted into a flight module if Europe does not return the Cossack, there is a domestic flight module developed and tested in space in a series, we need to make a supersonic parachute and our own BKU. In principle, everything can be done before the window in 2026.

The Proton-M rocket, which was intended for this launch, is already in the echelon and is sent to Baikonur - it will be used for another domestic launch, before such castling of missiles was common.

[tralflot1832]

And what is the difference between a professional cosmonaut and a non-professional one? So how many Unions there are docked to the ISS, on which it is possible to descend to Earth. a couple of ideas prepared.

[Bratkov Oleg]

Professionals wear black glasses and silenced pistols.

[LAWNER]

Professional cosmonauts will be able to undock the Russian modules from the station.

[VSO-396]

Quote: tralflot1832

And what is the difference between a professional cosmonaut and a non-professional one? So how many Unions there are docked to the ISS, on which it is possible to descend to Earth. a couple of ideas prepared.

They differ in military rank!

[Buck]

From each according to his ability, partners in the face!

[evgen1221]

What creakl embossed the passage about for the first time in history launched - a fully professional crew of cosmonauts - a creakle girl from VO or from Roskosmos? And before that, he knows only carpenters and janitors flew chtoli, not well, if non-professional astronauts, then so chtoli)))

[abrakadabre]

And before that, he knows only carpenters and janitors flew chtoli, not well, if non-professional astronauts, then so chtoli)))

And before that they flew: professional astronauts + manual monkeys / partners + tourists, etc. The Americans generally do not have astronauts. They are all astronauts, that is, stargazers. But they never hit a single star. And they don't want to. Either they can’t, or it’s hot there, on the stars ...

[Thrifty]

Evgen1221 - before that, plumbers flew, judging by the fact that we always repaired the Yankees

[Bratkov Oleg]

In order to live in space, the most important thing is to have life support systems. Without them, there is no manned space. Everything else is PR.

[Fat]

A carpenter is a difficult and respected profession to repair a ship on the move, and janitors are those people who not only look after the territory, but also report where necessary so what, Eugene .... The crew is completely PROFESSIONAL
Don't take it personally - joke

[Piramidon]

You are more careful about professions. A different carpenter is much MORE PROFESSIONAL than some modern scientists from the Unified State Examination. And even more so some astronauts with screwdrivers.

[Pereira]

Pick up yours. The rest are on their own.

[gansales]

And what about Ilona? Where are the launches of pepelations?
ay maskdrochers

[Bratkov Oleg]

Ilona jerks off the starship! As long as there is no erection...

[Repellent]

Quote: Bratkov Oleg

Ilona jerks off the starship!

Foreman... Scarecrow... ahh, got it, Starship-u...

[sergo1914]

All cosmonauts are Bauman graduates!!!

[bubalik]

Currently, there are seven people on the ISS, including two Russian cosmonauts - Anton Shkaplerov and Petr Dubrov, four NASA astronauts - Mark Vande Hai, Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron, as well as European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer.

,,at the moment.

sent a crew consisting entirely of professional cosmonauts - Oleg Artemiev, Denis Matveev and Sergei Korsakov.

,,,parity

[bubalik]

The Roskosmos television studio jokingly demonstrated the possibility of Russia withdrawing from the ISS project - the undocking of the Russian segment of the station, without which the American part of the project cannot exist.

[Adrey]

Bravo! If that were the case...

[Private SA]

Quote: -Paul-

I hope the TP-82, or at least the Makarovs, were issued to the crew.

They won't fit. Recoil from the aiming line will unpredictably throw
and spin on the ejection of the sleeve in weightlessness .. Only laser
weapons of limited power so as not to burn a hole in the skin ...

[XNUMX%]

No matter what happens at this station. By and large, no one needs it anymore as before. Therefore, any of the countries, especially the United States, can easily exchange cooperation in space for something more suitable for themselves. We need to close this shop and do not put it off for later.

[tolmachiev51]

-...."a crew consisting entirely of professional astronauts was sent" - the rest of the crews "passed by" !!! We must still choose expressions, although it may be that the profession of an astronaut has been legalized.

[Bubuzon]

Impose sanctions against Americans on the ISS. All in outer space.

[p0pulivox]

Quote: Dikson

Can you tell me why this docking took place in manual mode, and not in automatic mode? What, in the new "Pier" something decided to take a day off and not receive guests? ))

WORLD 24:

The docking took place in manual mode seven minutes later than planned. The reasons for this are currently being established.
“At a distance of 180 meters, for some unknown reason, something with the economy of the Kurs (the rendezvous and docking system - ed.), We had to switch to manual mode,” said Vladimir Solovyov, flight director of the Russian segment of the ISS.
According to him, the crew implemented the docking "quite successfully", although it was not easy, since this is the first docking to the "Prichal" module.