Posted on 03/19/2021 4:00:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins were also aboard the spaceship.
Ryzhikov, a 46-year-old former Russian Air Force fighter pilot, flew the Soyuz spacecraft away from the Rassvet module. After backing away to a distance of about 130 feet (40 meters), Ryzhikov performed a flyaround maneuver around the rear side of the space station to reach a position above the complex around.
The commander then guided the Soyuz spacecraft to a manual docking with the Poisk module on the upper part, or space-facing side, of the space station’s Russian segment. Docking occurred at for 1:12 p.m. EDT (1712 GMT) to wrap up the 34-minute maneuver.
The space station’s Poisk and Pirs modules double as docking ports and airlocks for spacewalks. A Progress supply ship that arrived at the station last month will take away the Poisk module later this year to make room for the Nauka laboratory on the lower docking position on the Zvezda service module.
The Nauka lab module is scheduled for launch in July from Baikonur on a Russian Proton rocket. It will be the most significant addition to the Russian part of the space station since 2000, when the Zvezda module itself was launched.
This was the 19th Soyuz port relocation in International Space Station history, and the first since August 2019.
Dragon commander Mike Hopkins, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Soichi Noguchi and Shannon Walker will climb aboard their Crew Dragon capsule April 5 to perform a similar port relocation maneuver, freeing up the space station’s forward docking port for the arrival of the next Crew Dragon on April 23.
Crew Dragon will undock and dock automatically, with Hopkins and his crewmates monitoring systems and ready to take manual control if necessary.
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Kate did not maneuver the station into the new parking spot. Because, well, you know ...
I heard that he had accidently put it into a reserved handicap parking space...
That’s going to be a $200 fine...
I was.
That guy is letting his mohawk get pretty long. Bet it’s impressive when it’s spiked.
This is harder than you might think. Space movies never get orbital mechanics right. If you want to overtake another vehicle in orbit you SLOW DOWN. This puts you in a lower orbit and you then pass the other vehicle. Then you increase velocity and move into a higher orbit. The faster you go the higher the orbit, but the higher orbit takes longer to go around the earth. Those space battles you see in Star Trek or Star Wars are impossible.
Have you seen the rates on that? I hope there getting the weekly rate.
"Screw those commie bastards and screw their little wussy space station!"
Perhaps true... but very very few Star Trek or Star Wars movies involve orbital spaceflight. Nearly all are deep space. I don’t know for sure, but i suspect the physics may be different.
Appropos of nothing.
The Sandra Bullock movie took the cake, however.
I think I was asleep in less than 10 minutes :P
Looks a little bit butch.
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