![]() Wilmore visited the ISS on the space shuttle in 2009. ![]() This is Samoukutyaev’s second tour of duty aboard the ISS he was there for 164 days in 2011. Serova’s Soyuz TMA-14M crewmates are NASA’s Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Roscosmos’s Alexander “Sasha” Samoukutyaev. She is just the fourth Russian woman to fly in space since the beginning of the Space Age. Assuming all goes well, their Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft will dock with the International Space Station (ISS) at 10:15 pm EDT tonight and she will become the first Russian woman ISS crewmember. ORIGINAL STORY, September 25, 6:19 pm ET: Russian cosmonaut Elena “Lena” Serova and two crewmates lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:25 pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) today (September 25). The solar arrays provide electrical power for spacecraft systems, but apparently one is sufficient for this new, short-duration rendezvous and docking profile (it used to take 2 days). NASA states that the crew is fine and docking remains on schedule for 10:15 pm ET tonight (one minute earlier than the time published in earlier NASA information). ![]() UPDATE, September 25, 7:20 pm ET: NASA confirms that one of the two solar arrays did not deploy once Soyuz TMA-14M was in orbit (the port array). (Further update: the port solar array became unstuck and deployed after docking.) UPDATE 2, September 25, 10:15 pm ET: Soyuz TMA-14M successfully docked with the ISS at 10:11 pm EDT. ![]()
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