2.10.2021
The Soyuz-2.1A launch vehicle with the Soyuz MS-19 manned spacecraft, which will take three crew members to the International Space Station (ISS), has been installed at the Baikonur launch pad in Kazakhstan, according to TASS.
The work kicked off on the site according to the schedule of the first launch day.
The launch vehicle was marked with special symbols: the logos of Roscosmos, Channel One, Glavkosmos, the Vyzov (Challenge) project as well as blue and red stripes.
Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, actress Yulia Peresild and film director Klim Shipenko will spend 12 days in orbit to film the first feature movie in space. The launch is scheduled for October 5. The actress and the director will return to earth on the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, along with cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, who has been staying on the ISS since spring.
The movie with the working name ‘Challenge’ is a joint project of Roscosmos, Channel One and the Yellow, Black and White studio. Peresild will play a doctor on a mission to save a cosmonaut’s life aboard the ISS.
Quelle: TASS
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Update: 3.10.2021
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NASA TV Coverage Set for Russian Film Production
Launch
NASA will provide coverage of a Tuesday, Oct. 5 launch that will carry a Russian cosmonaut, actress, and film producer to the International Space Station, where they will film segments for a movie. The launch will mark the expansion of commercial space opportunities to include feature filmmaking.
Making his fourth flight into space, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov will join actress Yulia Peresild and producer Klim Shipenko for the launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:55 a.m. EDT Oct. 5 (1:55 p.m. Baikonur time). Their Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft will make a fast-track, two-orbit journey to dock to the station’s Rassvet module.
NASA’s coverage will begin at 4:15 a.m. on NASA TV, the NASA app, and the agency’s website. The spacecraft’s docking is expected to take place at 8:12 a.m., with NASA TV coverage beginning at 7:30 a.m.
About two hours after docking, hatches between the Soyuz and the station will open. The trio aboard will then join Expedition 65 Commander Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency), NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov. Coverage of the hatch opening will begin at 9:30 a.m.
Peresild and Shipenko, who are making their first flights into space, will spend 12 days on the space station, filming segments for a movie titled “Challenge” under a commercial agreement between Roscosmos and Moscow-based media entities.
Peresild and Shipenko will return to Earth with Novitskiy Oct. 16 (Oct. 17 Kazakhstan time) on the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, which is currently docked at the space station, for a parachute-assisted landing on the Kazakh steppe. Shkaplerov will remain aboard the station through next March, returning with Vande Hei and Dubrov on the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft. The return of Vande Hei and Dubrov will mark the end of a 355-day mission. Vande Hei will have completed the longest single spaceflight by an astronaut in U.S. history.
Quelle: NASA
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Update: 4.10.2021
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NASA TV coverage set for Russian film production mission launch
NASA will provide coverage of a Tuesday, Oct. 5 launch that will carry a Russian cosmonaut, actress, and film producer to the International Space Station, where they will film segments for a movie. The launch will mark the expansion of commercial space opportunities to include feature filmmaking.
Making his fourth flight into space, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov will join actress Yulia Peresild and producer Klim Shipenko for the launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:55 a.m. EDT Oct. 5 (1:55 p.m. Baikonur time). Their Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft will make a fast-track, two-orbit journey to dock to the station's Rassvet module.
NASA's coverage will begin at 4:15 a.m. on NASA TV, the NASA app, and the agency's website. The spacecraft's docking is expected to take place at 8:12 a.m., with NASA TV coverage beginning at 7:30 a.m.
About two hours after docking, hatches between the Soyuz and the station will open. The trio aboard will then join Expedition 65 Commander Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency), NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov. Coverage of the hatch opening will begin at 9:30 a.m.
Peresild and Shipenko, who are making their first flights into space, will spend 12 days on the space station, filming segments for a movie titled "Challenge" under a commercial agreement between Roscosmos and Moscow-based media entities.
Peresild and Shipenko will return to Earth with Novitskiy Oct. 16 (Oct. 17 Kazakhstan time) on the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, which is currently docked at the space station, for a parachute-assisted landing on the Kazakh steppe.
Shkaplerov will remain aboard the station through next March, returning with Vande Hei and Dubrov on the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft. The return of Vande Hei and Dubrov will mark the end of a 355-day mission. Vande Hei will have completed the longest single spaceflight by an astronaut in U.S. history.
Quelle: SD
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Update: 5.10.2021
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Start von Soyuz--2.1A mit MS-19 spacecraft
Quelle: Roscosmos, NASA TV
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MS-19 Docking mit ISS
Quelle: NASA TV
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ISS Expedition 66: Soyuz MS-19 hatch opening and welcoming
Quelle: Roscosmos
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Soyuz MS spacecraft with first-ever film crew put in space
The crewed spacecraft Soyuz MS-19 carrying cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, actress Yulia Peresild and film director Klim Shipenko has jettisoned the third stage of the Soyuz-2.1a space rocket and begun autonomous flight to the International Space Station, the announcer said at the Baikonur cosmodrome.
The Soyuz-2.1a rocket blasted off from Baikonur at 11:55 Moscow time. It will take two orbits around the Earth (approximately three hours and 17 minutes) to approach the ISS. The docking with the Rassvet module is due at 15:20 Moscow time.
Peresild and Shipenko have been training for the flight since May. They studied space hardware, improved their physical fitness and underwent psychological training. They are going to the ISS to shoot a space drama under the working title Challenge, telling the story of a female doctor who agrees to go into space to save a cosmonaut's life. Taking part in filming the feature film episodes will be Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov, Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov.
Peresild and Shipenko will stay in orbit for 12 days to return to the Earth by the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft together with cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, who has been on the ISS since April. Novitsky will get back to the Earth on October 17, while Shkaplerov and Dubrov will spend another 174 days in space.
The Russian crewmembers are to welcome the arrival of crewed spacecraft Soyuz MS-20 with space tourists and Soyuz MS-21 with cosmonauts, cargo spacecraft Progress MS-18, and nodal module Prichal and make three spacewalks to integrate the multi-purpose research module Nauka with the ISS.
One of Shkaplerov's tasks is to test a new composite radiation protection material. As follows from information available on the website of the Russian space corporation Roscosmos, the Russian crew are to make at least 30 experiments in space biology, physiology, materials processing, remote sensing of the Earth and cosmic rays physics.
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Soyuz MS-19 spaceship commander to have three or four spacewalks on ISS
The commander of the Soyuz MS-19 spaceship Anton Shkaplerov is expected to have three or four spacewalks during his stay.
"I’ll have three-four spacewalks ahead, that’s normal," he said during the broadcast on the Roscosmos website.
The launch vehicle Soyuz-2.1a with the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft will be launched at 11:55 Moscow time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on October 5. Cosmonaut Shkaplerov, actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko will go into space on it. The crew is planning to film the first-ever motion picture in space. Peresild and Shipenko will return to Earth on the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft together with cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, who has been on the ISS since April, while Shkaplerov will carry on working at the station for six months.
Quelle: TASS