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Launch times
With Expedition 35 on the International Space Station coming to an end here are the latest official launch times for Luca and Expedition 36. As always in spaceflight, these can change at any time:...
View ArticleHead Squeeze live: How do you get to the ISS?
Luca's fast way to space Luca Parmitano and Expedition 36 crewmates will take the fast way to space with Soyuz on 28 May - the Head Squeeze programme explains how. Join the Google hangout on Tuesday at...
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Two days to go
ESA’s mission control provides another update, written yesterday, two days before launch: We held our Last Mission Management Team meeting today, where we did a final check of this week’s and next...
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A few hours left…
Mission control update with a handy timeline. Print it out and follow the major events of the launch and voyage to the International Space Station: Luca’s flight to the International Space Station in...
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Thank you
Credits: NASA-V. Zelentsov I am writing this at 9:30 in the morning on 28 May. We are only a few hours away from launch, and I am trying to analyse my thoughts and emotions. Many have asked me what it...
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Crew in Soyuz
First picture of Expedition 36/37 crew in Soyuz. Commander Fyodor visible left with Luca at the back. The stuffed toys are a simple but effective way of telling when the spacecraft escapes gravity.
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Impressions of a cosmic place
Spacefan (and ESA colleague) Nadjejda Vicente has travelled to Baikonur to see Luca’s launch on her own budget. Below is her impressions of the trip so far. Scroll down for a picture gallery: It is...
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Luca in orbit
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano, NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg and Russian commander Fyodor Yurchikhin were launched to the International Space Station at 20:31 GMT and entered orbit less than twenty...
View ArticleThe sound of Luca’s Soyuz
What does a Soyuz launch sound like? The MP3 recording below was recorded from Baikonur as Luca, Karen and Fyodor rocketed into space. Thanks, Nadjedja!
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Voyage to the International Space Station
Credits: NASA 12 hours ago I was on Earth. Now I am looking at it from 400 km away, at a speed of 28 000 km/h. Last week on Earth, after leaving the housing complex that hosted my crew for the last two...
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