36th expedition to the ISS

• The 36th expedition to the ISS

In May 2013th spaceship "Soyuz TMA-09M" launched from Baikonur cosmodrome, successfully docked automatically with the ISS, ushering in the 36th space mission. It lasted 166 days, during which time the International Space Station has flown around the earth 2,500 times.

The crew of the 36th expedition of six astronauts from Russia, the United States and Canada, returned safely to Earth, landing in the Kazakh steppe.

Several photos showing life on board the ISS and the spectacular views from orbit.

At the traditional press conference, Baikonur, 27 May 2013. On the orbit off Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin (center), NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg (left) and European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano. Fyodor Yurchikhin - the most experienced member of the team, this flight was the fourth for him.

"Soyuz" transport to the launch pad at Baikonur, May 26, 2013.

The flight engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA looks like "Soyuz TMA-09M" arrives at the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome train, May 26, 2013.

A funny tradition - the consecration of the spacecraft on the launch pad at Baikonur, May 27, 2013.

At least amusing - bless the astronauts. Baikonur, Kazakhstan, May 28, 2013.

Go! Start the spacecraft "Soyuz TMA-09M" from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, May 29, 2013.

Start took place from the site №1, or "Gagarin's start." The docking of spacecraft "Soyuz TMA-09M" with the ISS took place at 06:16 MSK in a fully automatic mode, May 29.

Alaska. The view from orbit in May 2013.

Preparing for the spacewalk. Left - cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, he puts on the suit. ISS, June 21, 2013.

Italian ESA astronaut Luca Salvo Parmitano within the "Dome" (Italian cupola.) - module of the International Space Station, which is a panoramic overview dome, consisting of seven transparent windows. Designed to monitor the Earth's surface, outer space and working in outer space people or equipment.

ISS flies at a height of 257 km above the Indian Ocean, June 2, 2013.

The program was about 50 experiments, most of which started in the previous expeditions. Among them, for example, an experiment "Endurance" - the astronauts are studying the impact of space on the mechanical properties of materials. Also, the astronauts examined the immune responses in humans during space flight.

The island of Guadeloupe in the Pacific Ocean (left center), August 24, 2013.

To ISS fit "Albert Einstein" - a European unmanned cargo spacecraft, named after the physicist Albert Einstein. On the board, he brought more than 6.5 tons of cargo, including: water, oxygen, food, experimental equipment. Docking occurred June 15, 2013.

And this, by the way, the launch of the cargo ship "Albert Einstein" June 5, 2013 with the help of the carrier rocket heavy class "Ariane-5ES" from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou.

The space freighter "Albert Einstein" is approaching the ISS.

Night Sicily and much of Italy, July 29, 2013.

Forest fires in southern Colorado, June 19, 2013.

Robonaut - humanoid robot, developed by NASA and General Motors. The robot is a humanoid figure of the legless, the head of which is painted with gold paint, and torso - white. In the hands of Robonaut five fingers with joints like a human. The machine is able to write, capture and add items to keep heavy things, like a dumbbell weighing 9 kg. The robot does not yet have the lower half of the body.

Red Sea, Egypt (left) and Saudi Arabia (right), June 22, 2013.

The Japanese space truck HTV-4 "Konotori-4" is coming to the International Space Station, August 9, 2013.

The Japanese space truck HTV-4 "Konotori-4", August 9, 2013.

Italian ESA astronaut Luca Salvo Parmitano in open space, 9 July 2013.

Fixed cameras on board the ISS photographed truck Japanese HTV-4 when it entered the Earth's atmosphere, September 7, 2013.

Storm clouds over the Atlantic Ocean near the equator and Brazil, July 4, 2013.

The 36th expedition to the ISS ends. In the photo - the descent module with astronauts, September 11, 2013.

Russian search and rescue helicopters are flying to meet the crew.

The descent capsule with the astronauts, Kazakhstan, September 11, 2013.

And here in Kazakhstan is successfully re-entry capsule landed with members of the 36th expedition to the ISS. They returned to Earth, Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin and NASA astronaut Christopher Cassidy, 11 September 2013.