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VIRTUALISATION Soyuz TMA-12 docks with ISS: First South Korean boards
VIRTUALISATION Soyuz TMA-12 docks with ISS: First South Korean boards | Soyuz TMA-12 docks with ISS: First South Korean boards |
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| by William Atkins | |
| Friday, 11 April 2008 | |
  
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The Soyuz TMA-12 flight was the first mission into space for all three of its space travelers. In addition, it is being reported that when the TMA-12 mission began its journey from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with Yi So-Yeon onboard, her mother screamed and then fainted with emotion upon seeing her daughter fly off into the sky. Yi So-yeon is the 49th woman in space, the 2nd Asian woman, and the 1st South Korean to fly into space. Commander Sergei Volkov, whose father was also a Russian cosmonaut, guided the Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft to a docking with the international space station. The Soyuz spacecraft docked at the Russian Pirs docking compartment, one of the docking modules at the space station. The docking occurred high in space over the northern Kazakhstan region, in the country where the mission originated. The hatches between the ISS and the Soyuz spacecraft was opened at 11:40 a.m. EDT (1540 GMT) and soon thereafter the three members of the Soyuz craft and the three members of the ISS craft—commander Peggy Whitson, flight engineer Yuri Malenchenko and flight engineer Garrett Reisman—conducted a welcoming ceremony. During the ceremony a South Korean official on Earth radioed up to Yi So-yoen, "You are now the dream of Korea. Please take good care of yourself and do your best for the success of all science experiments." She responded, "Thank you so much, I understand and I will try to do my best. I will spend all my energy for Korea. Thank you so much." [SpaceFlightNow: “New crew arrives at station after smooth docking”] During the next week or so, the old ISS Expedition 16 crew will be training and handing off duties to the new ISS Expedition 17 crew. During her stay at the International Space Station, biotechnology engineer Yi So-yeon will conduct eighteen experiments. She will be leaving the ISS when Whitson and Malenchenko return home. |
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