Soyuz MS-05 crew (L-R): Paolo Nespoli, Sergey Ryazansky, Randy Bresnik
The 134th flight of the Soyuz program will launch
tomorrow (July 28, 2017) from Baikonur, Kazakhstan 10:30am-ish for us in the Baltimore Daylight
Time Zone. This will be Expedition 52 to the International Space Station. Its crew consists of Commander Sergey
Ryazansky (Russian), Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli (Italian) and Flight
Engineer Randy Bresnik (Kentuckian). They will spend five months living, working and conducting scientific
experiments.
Nespoli has been to the ISS twice before already. He flew on the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-120)
back in 2007 and went back in December 2010 – May 2011 as part of the Soyuz
TMA-20.
Ryazansky flew on Soyuz TMA-10M to the ISS (Expedition 37)
and stayed from September 2013 March 2014.
It was his first spaceflight.
Bresnik (a Virgo like me) traveled on the Space Shuttle
Atlantis (STS-129) in November 2009. He
only spent 11 days on the ISS, but performed 2 EVAs and had a baby while in
orbit. Like Ryazansky, he’s been to the ISS once and it was his first
spaceflight.
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