The latest shift of 'nauts has successfully boarded the International Space Station for their stint of orbital duty, arriving at the sky-high outpost last night (UK time) aboard a Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft sent up from Russia. Soyuz spacecraft launches from Baikonur. Credit: NASA Off to work, heigh ho NASA astronaut Sunita …

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Tuesday 17th July 2012 16:08 GMT Christoph

"Dragon flights of the future are going to be more exciting than missions by the aged, workaday, Cold-War-era Soyuz"

Exciting is for new explorations. For regular servicing you want reliable above all else. Which until Dragon is thoroughly proved means Soyuz.

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1. Tuesday 17th July 2012 17:21 GMT Ru
  
  Quite.
  
  Participating in an exciting launch sounds a little like living in interesting times.
  
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  1. Wednesday 18th July 2012 09:16 GMT David Given
    
    Re: Quite.
    
    Participating in an exciting launch sounds more like *not* living in interesting times...
    
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Wednesday 18th July 2012 01:26 GMT ravenviz

'Japanese spaceman'

Nipponaut?

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1. Wednesday 18th July 2012 07:54 GMT Asiren
  
  Re: 'Japanese spaceman'
  
  "Sailor of Nippon"??
  
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2. Wednesday 18th July 2012 11:14 GMT Andus McCoatover
  
  Re: 'Japanese spaceman'
  
  Thought it was getting cold..Detected a Nip in the air.
  
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3. Thursday 19th July 2012 10:09 GMT Dave the Cat
  
  Re: 'Japanese spaceman'
  
  Ok so who had the sense of humor failure?
  
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Wednesday 18th July 2012 04:46 GMT Gene Cash

Yuri Malenchenko

He's been on MIR as well as 3 ISS flights and 4 spacewalks! Dude needs to stop hogging the spacecraft and give someone else a chance!

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1. Wednesday 18th July 2012 05:30 GMT Arthur 1
  
  Re: Yuri Malenchenko
  
  I think Sergei Krikalov and Michael Foale are both still active, and those two have probably been up more times than everyone else combined.
  
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Wednesday 18th July 2012 04:48 GMT Gene Cash

Apollo Soyuz Test Project

Oh yeah, and the ISS/Soyuz docking occurred on the 37th anniversary of the Apollo/Soyuz docking for ASTP, which was the first US/Russian space cooperation of any kind.

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Wednesday 18th July 2012 08:51 GMT Dodgy Geezer

Surely someone will offer the Chinese a seat....?

...and then we can have Astronauts, Cosmonauts AND Taikonauts in the same vehicle!

I'll get my coat...

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