Walk through the Space Station ISS

I invite you to imagine yourself an astronaut and travel to exciting Photoexcursions the International Space Station ISS.

Interesting photo report on a recent expedition to the ISS, which began in the spring of this year, and lasted 166 days! During his stay on the space station, the astronauts flew around our planet 2,500 times! See below.





At the traditional press conference, cosmodrome May 27, 2013. On the orbit off Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin (center), NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg (right) and European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano. Fyodor Yurchikhin - the most experienced member of the team, this flight was for him already the fourth.



Transportation spacecraft "Soyuz" launch pad at Baikonur on May 26, 2013.



Flight engineer Rick Mastracchio NASA looks like "Soyuz TMA-09M" arrives at the launch pad Baikonur Cosmodrome by train



No less fun - the blessing of the astronauts. Baikonur, Kazakhstan, May 28 2013.



Let's go! Start spacecraft "Soyuz TMA-09M" from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 29 May 2013.

Start with sites hosted №1, or "Gagarin's start." Docking of spacecraft "Soyuz TMA-09M" with the ISS took place May 29 at 06:16 MSK in fully automatic mode.







Alaska. The view from orbit in May 2013.



Preparing for the spacewalk. Left - cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, he puts on the suit. ISS, June 21, 2013.



Italian ESA astronaut Luca Salvo Parmitano within the "Dome" (ital. Cupola) - module of the International Space Station, which is a panoramic panoramic dome, consisting of seven transparent windows. It designed for Earth observation, space and work space in open space people or equipment.



ISS flies at an altitude of 257 km above the Indian Ocean, June 2 2013.



The program was about 50 experiments, most of which started in the previous expeditions. Among them, for example, the experiment "Endurance" - the astronauts are studying the effect of space on the mechanical properties of materials. Also, the astronauts examined the immune responses in humans during space flight.



Guadeloupe in the Pacific Ocean (left center) on 24 August 2013.



To fit the ISS "Albert Einstein" - a European unmanned cargo spacecraft, named after the physicist Albert Einstein. At its board, he brought more than 6.5 tons of cargo, including: water, oxygen, food, experimental equipment. The docking took place 15 June 2013.



And this, by the way, the launch of the cargo ship "Albert Einstein" June 5, 2013 via carrier rocket heavy class "Ariane-5ES» from the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou.



The space freighter "Albert Einstein" is approaching the ISS.



Night Sicily and much of Italy on 29 July 2013.



Forest fires in southern Colorado, on June 19 2013.



Robonaut - humanoid robot, developed by NASA and General Motors. The robot is a humanoid figure of the legless, the head of which is painted with gold paint and torso - white. In the hands of Robonaut five fingers with joints like a human. The machine is able to write, capture and add items to keep heavy items, such as a dumbbell weight of 9 kg. The robot does not yet have the lower half of the body.



Red Sea, Egypt (left) and Saudi Arabia (right), June 22, 2013.



Japanese space truck HTV-4 "Konotori-4" is coming to the International Space Station on August 9, 2013.



Japanese space truck HTV-4 "Konotori-4", August 9 2013.



Italian ESA astronaut Luca Salvo Parmitano in open space, July 9, 2013.



Stationary cameras on board the ISS photographed Japanese HTV-4 truck when it entered the Earth's atmosphere on 7 September 2013.



Storm clouds over the Atlantic Ocean near the equator and Brazil, July 4 2013.



36th expedition to the ISS ends. In the photo - the descent module with the astronauts on 11 September 2013.



Russian search and rescue helicopters are flying to meet the crew.



The descent capsule with the astronauts, Kazakhstan, September 11 2013.



And in Kazakhstan, successfully landing capsule landed with members of the 36th expedition to the ISS. They returned to Earth Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin and NASA astronaut Christopher Cassidy



Lander landing in the steppes of Kazakhstan



The commander of the 36th expedition to the ISS Pavel Vinogradov after returning to Earth