"Union" successfully started to the ISS, where the start was overslept

From the Baikonur cosmodrome, the Soyuz ship with the next crew has been successfully launched to the international space station. On board the TMA-05M Ship, the ISS-32/33 crew as part of the Russian Yuri Malenchenko, the NASA astronaut Sunites Williams (expedition commander) and Japanese Akihiko Hoside.

The Union successfully separated from the launch vehicle and went into the calculated orbit on the way to the ISS. “The most intense and heavy part is made. I talked with the astronauts, they feel good,” the head of Roscosmos Vladimir Popovkin told reporters.

The launch occurred at 6:40 am, and colleagues overturned it at the ISS, ITAR-TASS reports. The ISS crew prepared the station to arrive in Soyuz in advance and at that time still slept, the rise of the astronauts today as usual - at 10:00, ”ITAR -TASS reported at the flight control center near Moscow. But even if the astronauts were awake, see the start of the“ Union ”Padalka, Revin and Akaba: at that moment the station was over the opposite part of the earth's ball, at about 20. thousand km from Baikonur.

Within two days, the ship with each turn will catch up with the station. "Union" will fly around the planet 32 ​​times before it is attached to the ISS. The docking is planned at 8:52 Moscow time. July 17. The ship will fall into the vision zone of the ISS crew only in the morning, a few hours before the docking, but to contact the radio with Yuri Malenchenko, Sunita Williams and Akihiko Hoside Cosmonauts, if desired, will be able to, on Monday, July 16.