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Launch site: Baikonur
Launch date: March 26, 2009
The launch time is:
16:49:18 Baikonur 26.03.2009
14:49:18 MST 26.03.2009
11:49:18 UTC Mar 26, 2009
7:49:18 a.m. EDT Mar 26, 2009
NASA Expedition 19&20 Mission Press Kit is available at: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/320539main_Expedition_19_20_Press_Kit.pdf
The 19th Expedition to the ISS will become the first one during whose flight the International Space Station's crew number will be increased first to 5 and ultimately to 6. Charles Simonyi is going to become the first non-professional astronaut to go to space twice.
The crew of Expedition 19 will begin its journey to the International Space Station on March 26 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, launching on a mission that will ultimately inaugurate the expansion of the station to six
crew members. On board the Russian Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft will be cosmonaut Gennady Padalka (Puh-DOLL'-kuh), astronaut Michael Barratt (BA'-rat) and U.S. spaceflight participant Charles Simonyi (Sih-MOAN'-ee).
PADALKA GENNADY IVANOVICH
Soyuz TMA, ISS Commander
Test Cosmonaut, Instructor
GCTC (Russia),
384-th cosmonaut of the world, 89-th cosmonaut of Russia,
The Hero of the Russian Federation
Padalka, a 50-year-old Russian Air Force colonel, will command Expedition 19 and 20 as well as the Soyuz spacecraft for launch and landing. He is making his second voyage to the station after commanding Expedition 9 in 2004
2 MISSION OVERVIEW MARCH 2009 and his third flight into space, having logged 387 days in orbit on his previous missions.
MICHAEL REED BARRATT
ISS, Soyuz TMA Flight Engineer,
NASA Astronaut, has no spaceflight experience
Barratt, who will launch just days before his 50th birthday, will serve as a flight engineer on board the station and the Soyuz. He is making
his first journey into space after extensive experience in the medical field, including serving as the medical operations lead for the International Space Station Program and as a NASA flight surgeon. Padalka and Barratt will
spend about six months on the complex.
CHARLES SIMONYI
Space Flight Participant (US citizen)
ISS Visiting Crew, 456th cosmonaut of the world
Simonyi, 60, will spend 10 days on the station under a commercial agreement with the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), making his second flight to the station and becoming the first spaceflight participant to return to space. He will return to Earth on the Soyuz TMA-13 capsule on April 7 with
the Expedition 18 crew, Commander E. Michael Fincke and Flight Engineer
Yury Lonchakov (LAHN'-chuh-coff), who have been aboard the station since October 2008. The Soyuz will land in central Kazakhstan.
The Expedition 19 crew will work with experiments across a wide variety of fields, including human life sciences, physical sciences and Earth observation, and conduct technology demonstrations. As with prior Expeditions, many experiments are designed to gather information about the effects of
long-duration spaceflight on the human body, which will help with planning future exploration missions to the moon and Mars. The crew also will conduct experiments in tandem with various science teams and classrooms on the ground, including the EarthKAM project. EarthKAM allows middle school students to program a camera on board the station to take requested photos of the planet below. The camera operates automatically, and the images are
downlinked to the students via the Web.
Within days of the arrival of Expedition 20, Padalka and Barratt are scheduled to complete two spacewalks in Russian Orlan spacesuits to add hardware and reposition equipment on the Pirs Docking Compartment in preparation for the Mini Research Module-2, or MRM-2, a new Russian docking and research module, later in the year.
The back-up crew of the Soyuz TMA-14 consists of Maxim Suraev, Jeffrey Williams, Esther Dyson
Some news pictures related to the Expedition 19 and Soyuz TMA-14 pre-launch operations follow.
11-03-2009 Soyuz TMA-14 Crews Arrived at Baikonur
12-03-2009 The First Prelaunch Training for Soyuz TMA-14 Crew
13-03-2009 Soyuz TMA-14 Crews Raise the Flags of the States Involved in the Mission
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