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June 28, 2010. S.P.Korolev RSC Energia - MCC-M,
Korolev, Moscow region
In accordance with the mission plan of the International Space Station (ISS), the manned spacecraft Soyuz TMA-19 was re-docked from the instrumentation and propulsion compartment of the Zvezda Service Module of the ISS Russian Segment to the docking port on the Mini Research Module Rassvet.
The primary objective of the operation was to vacate the docking port on the rear end on the SM instrumentation and propulsion compartment so that it could receive unmanned logistics spacecraft Progress M-06M.
Operations to take the spacecraft away from the station, to carry out approach maneuvers and the subsequent docking were performed manually by the spacecraft commander Russian cosmonaut F. Yurchikhin. Flight engineers of the spacecraft, US astronauts S. Walker and D. Wheelock worked onboard Soyuz TMA-19 together with the commander.
Russian cosmonauts A. Skvortsov, M. Kornienko and US astronaut T. Caldwell-Dyson, who were working onboard the space station were monitoring the spacecraft redocking and ISS systems operation.
Preparations for and performance of the operations were monitored from the Mission Control Center near Moscow (MCC-M) by specialists from S.P.Korolev RSC Energia and organizations involved in the implementation of the ISS program.
For information:
- The Soyuz TMA-19 was undocked from the SM instrumentation and propulsion compartment at 23:14 Moscow Time, the spacecraft docked with the Rassvet module at 23:38 Moscow Time.
- The decision to move the docking to a later time than had been planned earlier was made by the Lead Operations Control Team working at MCC-M (Flight Director - first deputy general designer of RSC Energia V.A. Soloviev) in cooperation with their US colleagues from MCC-H in connection with a delay in feathering one of the solar arrays on the US orbital segment into the position required for performing the docking.
- This docking of Soyuz TMA-19 was the first docking with the new Russian module Rassvet. Its accomplishment has demonstrated a high degree of self-control and professional skills of the RSC Energia cosmonaut-instructor-tester F. Yurchikhin.
- The launch of unmanned spacecraft Progress M-06M is scheduled for June 30, 2010, at 19:35 Moscow Time.
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