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there on the ground in baikonur a crowd

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of family and friends and nasa officials

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as well as cosmos officials are watching

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tonight's launch

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less than a mile away

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t-minus 30 seconds and counting

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dmitry we have 24 seconds

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yes antonio college we're ready for the

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lunch okay i will stay

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with you and i will continue

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ten seconds

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preliminary

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five seconds

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engines at maximum thrust and liftoff of

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the soyuz tma-20

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as katie coleman palo nespoli and

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dimitri candrativ head toward the

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all the parameters of the control

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systems are within the norm okay we copy

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this will use lighting up the night sky

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there at the baikonur cosmodrome it's a

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good pitch program according to flight

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functioning

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thrusters are stable this will use

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delivering 102 tons of thrust from his

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four boosters in single engine the first

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stage of the soyuz measures 68 feet in

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length and 24 feet in diameter is

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burning liquid fuel for the first two

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pressure is normal

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60 seconds

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your pitch and roll are within the norm

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one minute and 10 seconds into the

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flight the velocity is at 1 100 miles

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per hour

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dmitry

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how's the g load

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increasing

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crew talking with the russian

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ground controllers they're reporting

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that the g-force is building up on them

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as the soyuz continues to speed up we're

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now at one minute and 37 seconds into

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the flight

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katie coleman palo nespoli and dimitri

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kondraty have now officially on their

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way toward the international space

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station once again docking will take

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place on friday and of course we'll have

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110 seconds so

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one minute 58 seconds into the flight

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jettison of the four strap-on boosters

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will take place these have completed

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their job and have dropped away

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at an altitude of 28 statute miles the

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soyuz now traveling at about 3 350 miles

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there are a live view inside the soyuz

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palo nespoli there on the right-hand

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side dimitri kandrativ there in the

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middle seat he is the commander of the

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spacecraft and on the left-hand side

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just out of view is katie coleman

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parameters of the launch vehicle are

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normal okay copy everything is nominal

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on board 150 seconds

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all stages are functioning nominally

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have you noticed when you switched over

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to the second stage yes a little bit

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bump and the change in the load

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now almost three minutes into the flight

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the visiting vehicle officer here in

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time mission control has confirmed that

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the launch shroud has been jettisoned

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there is katie coleman on the left-hand

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she and her colleagues about to begin a

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five or six month trip to the

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international space station

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to join the in progress expedition 26

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the soyuz now traveling 4 700 miles an

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just fight

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the sole user's core stage is performing

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as expected the core stage is about 56

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feet in length

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13 and a half feet in diameter with a

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single engine that has four fuel

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chambers providing 96 tons of thrust for

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its three minutes and 28 seconds of

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on the shuttle when you flew

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higher or lower well i have experienced

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inside the centrifuge many times

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okay the stabilization is stable okay

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we see you

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katie coleman they're waving to the

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camera and everybody that's uh watching

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her and the rest of the crew head

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towards space

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the ground team they're talking with

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katie about her experiences onboard the

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space shuttle and she flew aboard space

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shuttle columbia and comparing it to the

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soyuz flight that she is now undertaking

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260 seconds the parameters

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are within the norm

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we're now four minutes and 40 seconds

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coming up here shortly the core booster

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will burn out and separate at an

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altitude of 105 miles

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the third stage will then ignite for the

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third stage thruster activation

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we have confirmation that the second

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stage has separated

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the separation of the third stage

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yes anatoly nikolaevich we felt it

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the soyuz is now being propelled by the

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single engine of the soyuz's third stage

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this engine is providing 30 tons of

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thrust and will burn for four minutes

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send the command r1 okay we copy

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330 seconds

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third stage thruster is

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functioning stay in a stable manner okay

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350 seconds nominal flight

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now six minutes into the flight paolo

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nespoli dimitri kondratyev and katie

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coleman

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are faring very well during today's uh

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the systems onboard the soyuz are also

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performing well

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the ground teams in moscow and also here

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in houston are continuing to monitor the

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the launch vehicle parameters are within

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the norm okay

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stabilization

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now seven minutes and 20 seconds into

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the flight once again the soyuz is

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flying under the call sign of varangian

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it was selected by the commander dmitry

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kandrativ

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it is named for the vikings who came

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across eastern europe back in the 9th

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century

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nominal flight the velocity of the soyuz

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once the third stage delivers the soyuz

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to orbit and the module is separated a

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series of pre-programmed commands will

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be executed to prepare the soyuz for

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orbital operations

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stored commands called time tagged

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commands

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allow many of the soyuz systems to be

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automatically activated by onboard

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computers at precise times stored in

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control system parameters are within the

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seconds the vehicle is