Soyuz TMA-6 and Progress M-52 update, 16-02-2005

Baikonur Cosmodrome, 16-02-2005

Manned transportation spacecraft Soyuz TMA-6 has been delivered to the
Baikonur launch site where it will undergo final operations to prepare it
for launch. In mid-April this spacecraft will carry a Russian cosmonaut
Sergei Krikalev and two flight engineers - NASA astronaut John Phillips and
ESA astronaut, an Italian, Roberto Vittori - to the International Space
Station to perform work there under the programs of ISS Expedition 11 and
the Russian "taxi" Mission 8.

In the launch site processing facility, the work is drawing to a close to
prepare for launch a Russian logistics spacecraft Progress M-52, which is to
deliver to ISS the propellant and cargoes needed for the space station to
continue its operation and to support the life and work of its crew.

Photo-report:
http://www.energia.ru/english/energi...oto_02-16.html


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Jacques :-)

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