Triple Alex Docking Astronauts Complete Atv 5 Training

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Samokutyaev completed their instruction on ATV-5 docking/undocking at ESA's European Astronaut Centre on Friday. The two were undergoing instruction like they moral fiber relieve as the compilation members who sincere the undocking of ATV-5. ESA's Alexander Gerst moral fiber sincere docking of ATV-5, in Derive 2014, attached not later than Russia's Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Skvortsov (Can we call this the 'Triple Alex' docking? - Ed.), in the role of Samantha attached not later than Alexander Samokutyaev moral fiber undock ATV-5 in Autumn 2014.

Sasha Samokutyaev took amount in the undocking of ATV-2 in 2011, and he similarly saw the undocking of the last Shuttle, STS-135, from the Inclusive Go kaput Forward (ISS). Sasha is in actual fact the expert of the 'lasts'...'

Computerized Thrill Car 5 (ATV-5), is a European unmanned insert resupply spacecraft, named after the Belgian astronomer Georges Lema^itre. The spacecraft is payable for concern in 2014, on a profession to dispense the ISS not later than propellant, water, air, and dry insert. It is the fifth and hindmost ATV to be built, tailing the Albert Einstein, which launched on 5 June 2013.

Samantha Cristoforetti was a variety of as an ESA astronaut in May 2009. She together ESA in September 2009 and completed vital astronaut instruction in November 2010. In July 2012 she was assigned to a profession aboard the ISS, to be launched on a Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in 2014. This moral fiber be the eighth long-duration profession for an ESA astronaut.

Alexander Gerst was a variety of as an ESA astronaut in May 2009. He together ESA in September 2009 and completed Astronaut Worst Encoding in November 2010. In September 2011, Alex was assigned to fly to the ISS on a six-month profession. He moral fiber relieve as a flight creator for Expeditions 40 and 41. He moral fiber be launched on a Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in May 2014, frequent to Kingdom in November 2014. His wonderful research programme moral fiber place in a considerable mixture of European and international science experiments.

Aleksandr Skvortsov is a Russian cosmonaut. He has had one spaceflight, which was a long-duration alight aboard the ISS. His spaceflight took rigid from April to September 2010, and was launched not later than the spacecraft Soyuz TMA-18. He fashionable at the station amount way sad Flight 23, of which Oleg Kotov was the Commander. The same as Flight 24 began in June, Skvortsov became Commander. He disappeared 176 time in space.

Aleksandr Samokutyayev is a Russian cosmonaut. He served as a Crossing Swing for the ISS hope tenure Flight 27/28 missions. He similarly served as the Soyuz TMA-21 commander. He was hired as a cosmonaut in the summer of 2003.

Credit: ESA

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