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"The crew are in good physical condition, communication is stable and all systems are working normally after the separation from the carrier rocket" - Russian Mission Control

On October 3 the new crew will dock with the ISS and relieve the ISS-11 crew.

After a few days the Expedition 11 crew and the third space tourist will undock the ISS and the Soyuz TMA-6.
During their stay aboard the ISS, Astronaut McArthur and cosmonaut Valery Tokarev, will redock the Soyuz TMA-7 with the Functional Cargo Block (FCB), and carry out operations with three transport cargo ships -- Progress M-54, M-55, and M-56, and hopefully dock with a shuttle, should its flights be resumed.
The 12th expedition crew will also make two spacewalks with the ISS and begin technical maintenance and servicing of ISS systems.
Tokarev and McArthur will replenish the station's supplies, carry out research projects and experiments, dock the Soyuz TMA-8 with the ISS-13, embark on a joint flight with the ISS-13 and then return to earth aboard the Soyuz TMA-7.
The 12th expedition crew will conduct 46 experiments aboard the ISS, 38 of which were started on previous expeditions. Eight new experiments will be conducted under the 12th crew.

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Images of the launch from the live webcast.



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Under a partly cloudy sky, the Russian Soyuz an automated docking with the space station's Pirs airlock module around 1:32 a.m. Monday. After hatch opening three hours later spacecraft safely launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome at 0354:53 GMT, with the International Space Station's twelfth resident crew and a paying tourist aboard.


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The Soyuz will perform an automated docking with the space station's Pirs airlock module around 1:32 a.m. on Monday. Hatch openingwill be three hours later.

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ISS Expedition 12 commander Bill McArthur and flight engineer Valery Tokarev, representing the Russian Federal Space Agency, are set to launch into space inside their Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 03:54 GMT October 1st.



After a two-day spaceflight, Expedition 12 is scheduled to dock at the ISS at 05:32 GMT on October 3rd.
Greg Olsen will spend just over a week aboard the ISS and return home with Krikalev and Phillips on October 10.
McArthur and Tokarev will maintain the ISS, conduct experiments and perform at least one spacewalk during their time aboard orbit.

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The Orbital module of the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle, containing the Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft was integrated with the launch vehicle in the LV Assembly and Testing Facility.
From there, at 5:00 a.m. Moscow Time, the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle and the Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft was transported from the Assembly and Testing Facility to the launch pad and erected on the launcher.



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Tests of the control system for the Russian-made manned spacecraft TMA-7 Soyuz, to carry the Expedition 12 crew to the International Space Station (ISS), starts today at the Baikonur Space Centre in Kazakhstan.
The preparation for crew simulations inside the craft would also begin.
The TMA-7, capped with a Soyuz FG booster, is scheduled to lift off from Baikonur at 03:54 GMT on October 1st, 2005.

The 12th ISS crew includes Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev, NASA astronaut William McArthur and New Jersey scientist and billionaire entrepreneur Gregory Olsen, who will become a third space tourist.

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The main and backup crews of the 12th expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), has been approved by a state commission.
The main crew includes Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev, NASA astronaut William McArthur Jr., and Gregory Olsen, an American multimillionaire and the third commercial space tourist.

The expedition is to be launched from the Baikonur space centre by a Soyuz-U carrier rocket on October 1.
The crews successfully completed tests at the Soyuz simulators in Zvyozdny Gorodok yesterday.


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