Astronaut Dan Burbank and Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Anton Shkaplerov left before dawn on Monday to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The flight marks the resumption of manned missions after accident with a rocket of the type in late August.
Burbank, Shkaplerov Ivanishin and should dock with the ISS on Tuesday and join the American Mike Fossum, Japan's Satoshi Furukawa and Russian Sergei Volkov aboard the station. The three oldest crew will return to Earth in the next day after taking care of the station waiting for the resumption of flights from Russia.
The next day on December 21, the American astronaut Don Pettit, along with Russian Oleg Kononenko and European Andre Kuipers will join the new ISS crew. The six will perform various experiments and also inaugurate a new era of commercial flights to the ISS, since the period they are on board will be conducted the first tests of the Dragon engagement, supply ship developed by SpaceX, and Cygnus capsule, another spacecraft being developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation.
My opinion about the story: I think it is great the way that we are conquering the space and all around. I think that the human race has been developing really well the ways and the techniques to have the control of this kind of stuff. I hope and truly believe that is not going to take us a really long time to us to be able to create and developed our life in another planet.
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