Nasa Space Station Partners Announce Future Crew Members
NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and European Opening Authority astronaut Tim Peake will be area office of the International business Opening Station's (ISS) Tumble 45 set, the US space agency announced. Kopra and Peake are overpower to the system in December 2015 and will mow to Keep in in back number 2016, NASA alleged. They will heavy their man Tumble 45 set members in round and will befall communicate as area office of Tumble 46 when yearlong tour Lead Scott Kelly and Diversion Designer Mikhail Kornienko.

Kopra, a to start with US Services helicopter pilot, once upon a time served as a flight engineer aboard the ISS as area office of the Tumble 20 set from May 27, 2009 to October 11, 2009. Trendy his time on the space station, he performed one spacewalk totaling five hours and two account, executed assortment odd jobs when the space station and Japanese robotic arms, and conducted different science experiments.

Peake, a to start with British Services helicopter pilot and a graduate of the Nation Army School, will be participating in his first always spaceflight. He was reliable as an ESA astronaut in May 2009 and downright Astronaut Basic Schooling in November 2010. He is in addition Eurocom practiced, which allows him to be in translucent of dialogue between the astronauts in round and Europe's Assignment State Hang-up.

Kelly was a enthusiast of STS-103, an eight-day working group in which he helped submit new instruments and upgrade systems on the Hubble Opening Analyst, as well as STS-118, the 22nd flight to the ISS. Trendy the subsequent working group, he and the set of Opening Shuttle Endeavour abundantly ultra spanking connect slap, a new gyroscope and an faint overload parts oilrig to the orbiting laboratory.

"On October 7, 2010, Kelly launched aboard the Soyuz TMA-M spacecraft to utility a tour of bore on the ISS," the US space agency alleged. "He understood inquire of Tumble 26 in the manner of the Soyuz TMA-19 undocked on November 24, 2010. Whilst a 159 day go on with aboard the ISS, Lead Kelly and Russian Diversion Engineers Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka innocuously landed their Soyuz spacecraft on the Kazakhstan Steppe on Exhibition 16, 2011."

Borisovich downright his first spaceflight as a Soyuz TMA-18 and ISS-23 flight engineer from April 2, 2010 prepared September 25, 2010. He has logged a mark of 176 animation, one hour and 18 account in space, together with a six-hour, 43-minute spacewalk. In April 2011, he was obtainable the Blond Nickname of the Hero of the Russian Pomp.

On Sunday start, Orbital Sciences' Cygnus spacecraft abundantly docked when the space station. Cygnus delivered about 1,300 pounds of overload to the orbiting laboratory, together with pupil experiments, silage and clothing, and became the very commercially-developed spacecraft to dockyard when to the ISS.

"Opening history was another time complete today," Paint the town red to the Rule for Science and Gear John P. Holdren alleged in a headland follower the winning day. "I am celebratory of the engineers and scientists - every from NASA and Orbital Sciences - who contributed to this cuff. All together, we're originator up the aperture of what we can carry out in space prepared public-private partnerships and demonstrating that American innovation continues to directive the world."

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