{"id":1608,"date":"2013-10-12T15:33:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T19:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2013-10-12T15:33:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T19:33:51","slug":"govt-shutdown-doesnt-stop-space-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/govt-shutdown-doesnt-stop-space-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov’t Shutdown Doesn’t Stop Space History …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone will need to explain to me why NASA’s websites have to be shut down — did they shut down the power to the server rooms? — but the fact is that the National Space Science Data Center<\/a> site came up empty today. But this space history item will not be denied!<\/p>\n

Five years ago today — October 12, 2008 — a Soyuz-FG rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome carrying mission Soyuz TMA-13 to the International Space Station. Its crew consisted of U.S. astronaut Michael Fincke, U.S. space tourist Richard A. Garriott, and Russian cosmonaut Yuri V. Lonchakov.<\/p>\n

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\n(The Soyuz rocket carrying TMA-13 being erected on the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad. Image from Wikimedia Commons.)<\/em><\/p>\n

The Soyuz docked with the Zarya module two days after launch. Garriott spent nine days aboard the ISS and returned to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-12, along with cosmonauts and ISS residents Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko, while the other two TMA-13 passengers stayed aboard the ISS.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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