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Russian Soyuz TMA-13 spaceship to be prepared for launch

A Russian Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft is set on its launch pad on the Baikonur cosmodrome Oct. 10, 2008. U.S. space tourist Richard Garriott, Russian cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov and U.S. astronaut Michael Fincke are scheduled to fly to the International Space Station on Oct. 12, 2008.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

A Russian Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft is set on its launch pad on the Baikonur cosmodrome Oct.10,2008.

A Russian Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft is set on its launch pad on the Baikonur cosmodrome Oct. 10, 2008. U.S. space tourist Richard Garriott, Russian cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov and U.S. astronaut Michael Fincke are scheduled to fly to the International Space Station on Oct. 12, 2008.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

Spacecraft moved to launch pad ahead of ISS flight

U.S. astronaut Owen Garriott looks at the Russian Soyuz TMA-13 space ship that will carry new crew members, including his son U.S. space tourist Richard Garriott, to the international space station at the launch pad in Russian leased Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. The rocket is scheduled to blast off on Sunday, October 12. U.S. astronaut Owen Garriott looks at the Russian Soyuz TMA-13 space ship that will carry new crew members, including his son U.S. space tourist Richard Garriott, to the international space station at the launch pad in Russian leased Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. The rocket is scheduled to blast off on Sunday, October 12. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Russian Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft ready to lift off

The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft arrives at the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, October 10, 2008 for launch on October 12, 2008 to carry Expedition 18 Commander Michael Fincke, Flight Engineer Yury V. Lonchakov and American Spaceflight Participant Richard Garriott to the International Space Station. The three crew members will dock their Soyuz to the International Space Station on October 14. Fincke and Lonchakov will spend six months on the station, while Garriott will return to Earth October 24, 2008 with two of the Expedition 17 crewmembers currently on the International Space Station. [Agencies] 

Baikonur Preparing to Launch Soyuz Tma-13 Spacecraft

BAIKONUR. Oct 9 (Interfax-AVN) - Teams of the Federal Space Agency and the Baikonur space center are attaching the Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft to the Soyuz-FG rocket.

Russia's Soyuz spacecraft carrying US tourist docks with ISS

Russian Soyuz spacecraft TMA-13 carrying US space tourist Richard Garriott has docked with the International Space Station (ISS), RIA Novosti news agency reported today quoting Russia's Mission Control official. The Soyuz TMA-13 craft, which blasted off from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan on Sunday, brought US astronaut Mike Fincke, Russian cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov and US space tourist Garriott to the ISS. Mr Garriott will conduct a variety of scientific experiments during his ten-day stay on the orbiting station. The son of US astronaut Owen Garriott, the sixth space tourist to travel to the ISS made his fortune in online computer games, including the popular Ultima Online. He reportedly paid 30 million dollars for the trip to the ISS.

Russia's Soyuz spacecraft blasts off carrying US tourist Garriott

A Soyuz-FG carrier rocket today lifted off from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan to take a crew of three, including US space tourist Richard Garriott, to the International Space Station (ISS). The three-stage carrier rocket was launched at 1101 hrs Moscow time (1231 hrs IST) as planned, with the Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft subsequently removing from the rocket, Russian news agencies reported from the launch site. The world's sole orbiter was successfully moved to a higher orbit on October 4 to receive the Soyuz craft carrying the 18th ISS expedition, which includes US astronaut Mike Fincke, Russian cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov and Garriott. The crew was approved by Russia's space agency in September after completing a series of pre-flight tests and medical checks.

Spacecraft Soyuz TMA-13 with crew of cosmonauts launched from Baikonur

Baikonur. October 13. Kazakhstan Today - The spacecraft Soyuz TMA-13 with the crew of cosmonauts was successfully launched from Baikonur, the agency reports.

Russian spacecraft carrying U.S. space tourist lands successfully

KOROLYOV, Moscow region. Oct 24 (Interfax-AVN) - The landing capsule of the Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko and U.S. space tourist Richard Garriott has successfully touched down in a Kazakhstan steppe. "The descent and landing passed according to plan," Valery Lyndin, the head of the Russian mission control center press service, told Interfax. Former cosmonaut Alexander Volkov and former NASA astronaut Owen Garriott earlier joined the rescue teams to meet their sons after landing. Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) spokesman Alexander Vorobyov told Interfax the Soyuz TMA-12 crew should be delivered to the Chkalovsky airfield outside Moscow on Friday afternoon. After that, Volkov, Kononenko, and Garriott will spend two weeks in a rehabilitation center at Zvyozdny Gorodok (Star City

A Russian Soyuz capsule with 2 Russian cosmonauts, a U.S. space tourist aboard landed safely Friday.

Ground crew members helps U.S. space tourist Richard Garriott shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz space capsule near Arkalyk, in north-central Kazakhstan Friday, Oct. 24, 2008. A Soyuz capsule carrying a Russian-American crew has touched down on target in Kazakhstan after a descent from the international space station, safely delivering the first two men to follow their fathers into space.(Xinhua/AFP Photo)

Russian spaceship blasts off with U.S. tourist

Russian spaceship blasts off with U.S. tourist U.S. space tourist Richard Garriott (L) looks out of a window as Expedition 18 Flight Engineer Yuri Lonchakov works during their launch aboard a Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan October 12, 2008. Garriott, a video game developer from Texas, paid $35 million to fly into space alongside U.S. astronaut Michael Fincke and Russian cosmonaut Lonchakov. REUTERS/NASA TV

Soyuz With Richard Garriott Successfully Launched

Toren Altair writes "Soyuz TMA-13 with ISS Expedition Crew 18 and Richard Garriott successfully launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome at 7:01 UT (3:01 EDT). The Soyuz capsule will dock to the ISS in two days. Garriott will return to Earth with Expedition 17 crew members, Commander Sergei Volkov and Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko on October 23." With the extra attention on this launch, the Russians have gone out of their way to say that the return of the Soyuz vehicle will be safe, after a couple of different malfunctions in the past year. Garriott is in space partly for recreation, and partly as a promotion for his latest MMO, Tabula Rasa. He took with him a hard drive filled with information about humanity, as well as DNA sequences from Tabula Rasa players and various celebrities (including Stephen Colbert and Stephen Hawking) to 'preserve'

The Russian Soyuz spaceship with three cosmonauts aboard blasted off from Baikonur at 11.01 Moscow time to...

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan, October 12 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian Soyuz spaceship with three cosmonauts aboard blasted off from Baikonur at 11.01 Moscow time to the International Space Station (ISS), Itar-Tass reported from the southern cosmodrome.

Orbital Set to Launch Company-built IBEX Scientific Spacecraft for NASA Aboard Pegasus...

Orbital Set to Launch Company-built IBEX Scientific Spacecraft for NASA Aboard Pegasus Rocket Company to Carry Out First of Three "Dual" Missions Scheduled Over the Next Nine Months as both Satellite Manufacturer and Launch Services Provider in Support of NASA's Science Satellite Programs Equatorial Launch from Kwajalein Atoll to Reach the Highest Apogee Ever for a Pegasus Mission; IBEX Satellite's Highly Elliptical Orbit to Reach 80% of the Distance to the Moon DULLES, Va.--(Business Wire)-- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) today announced that it is in final preparations to launch the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) satellite that the company designed, manufactured and tested at its Dulles, VA production facilities. The targeted launch date is Sunday, October 19, which is subject to final pre-launch preparations and testin

Orbital Set to Launch Company-built IBEX Scientific Spacecraft for NASA Aboard Pegasus Rocket

Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) today announced that it is in final preparations to launch the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) satellite that the company designed, manufactured and tested at its Dulles, VA production facilities. The targeted launch date is Sunday, October 19, which is subject to final pre-launch preparations and testing activities at the launch site, as well as acceptable weather conditions at the time of the launch. The IBEX satellite will be launched aboard Orbital's Pegasus(R) air-launched rocket in a mission that will originate from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands located near the Equator in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The available launch window for the IBEX mission extends from 1:44 p.m. to 1:51 p.m. (EDT).

Orbital Set to Launch Company-built IBEX Scientific Spacecraft for NASA Aboard Pegasus Rocket

Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) today announced that it is in final preparations to launch the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) satellite that the company designed, manufactured and tested at its Dulles, VA production facilities. The targeted launch date is Sunday, October 19, which is subject to final pre-launch preparations and testing activities at the launch site, as well as acceptable weather conditions at the time of the launch. The IBEX satellite will be launched aboard Orbital's Pegasus(R) air-launched rocket in a mission that will originate from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands located near the Equator in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The available launch window for the IBEX mission extends from 1:44 p.m. to 1:51 p.m. (EDT).

Orbital Set to Launch Company-built IBEX Scientific Spacecraft for NASA Aboard Pegasus Rocket

DULLES, Va.--Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) today announced that it is in final preparations to launch the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) satellite that the company designed, manufactured and tested at its Dulles, VA production facilities. The targeted launch date is Sunday, October 19, which is subject to final pre-launch preparations and testing activities at the launch site, as well as acceptable weather conditions at the time of the launch. The IBEX satellite will be launched aboard Orbital's Pegasus(R) air-launched rocket in a mission that will originate from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands located near the Equator in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The available launch window for the IBEX mission extends from 1:44 p.m. to 1:51 p.

Orbital Set to Launch Company-built IBEX Scientific Spacecraft for NASA Aboard Pegasus Rocket

DULLES, Va. (Business Wire) -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) today announced that it is in final preparations to launch the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) satellite that the company designed, manufactured and tested at its Dulles, VA production facilities. The targeted launch date is Sunday, October 19, which is subject to final pre-launch preparations and testing activities at the launch site, as well as acceptable weather conditions at the time of the launch. The IBEX satellite will be launched aboard Orbital's Pegasus(R) air-launched rocket in a mission that will originate from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands located near the Equator in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The available launch window for the IBEX mission extends from 1:44 p.

US tourist pays $35m for ride with Russian cosmonauts

U.S. space tourist Richard Garriott waves to his girlfriend, Kelly Miller (L), from a bus driving him to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Sunday. Garriott, alongside U.S. astronaut Michael Fincke and Russian cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov, blasted off into space aboard the Russian Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft which lifted off from the cosmodrome on the Kazakh steppes as planned. PHOTO/ REUTERS

Russian Soyuz capsule returns from space station

Ground crew members helps U.S. space tourist Richard Garriott shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz space capsule near Arkalyk, in north-central Kazakhstan Friday, Oct. 24, 2008. A Soyuz capsule carrying a Russian-American crew has touched down on target in Kazakhstan after a descent from the international space station, safely delivering the first two men to follow their fathers into space.(Xinhua/AFP Photo)

New Crew, Space Tourist Launched to Iss From Baikonur

BAIKONUR. Oct 12 (Interfax-AVN) - A Russian launch vehicle, Soyuz- FG, carrying the Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft, blasted off from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on Sunday, an Interfax-AVN correspondent reported from the launch site.

Russian spaceship docks with space station

The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft, carrying Expedition 18 Commander Michael Fincke, Flight Engineer Yury V. Lonchakov and U.S. video game magnate Richard Garriott, lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan October 12, 2008. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

Orbital to Launch IBEX Scientific Spacecraft for NASA Aboard Pegasus Rocket on Oct. 19 - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Saturday, Orbital Sciences Corp. (ORB) announced that the company is in final phase to launch the company-designed Interstellar Boundary Explorer or IBEX satellite. The satellite is scheduled to launch on October 19, which is subject to final pre-launch preparations and testing activities at the launch site, and acceptable weather conditions at the time of the launch.

Russian spaceship docks with space station

The Russian manned spaceship Soyuz, with three passengers from Russia and the United States on board, docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday.

Russian spaceship docks with space station

The Russian manned spaceship Soyuz, with three passengers from Russia and the United States on board, docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday.

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