Science and Exploration

All Dressed Up With Somewhere To Go

By Keith Cowing
May 24, 2013
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Attired in their Russian Sokol launch and entry suits, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov (center), Expedition 23 commander; along with NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer (left) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, both flight engineers, are pictured in the Unity node of the International Space Station. Kotov, Noguchi and Creamer were about to conduct a standard suit leak check in preparation for the scheduled relocation of the Soyuz 21 (TMA-17) spacecraft from the Zarya nadir port to the Zvezda Service Module’s aft port on May 12, 2010. high res (1.6 M) low res (115 K)

Attired in their Russian Sokol launch and entry suits, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov (center), Expedition 23 commander; along with NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer (left) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, both flight engineers, are pictured in the Unity node of the International Space Station. Kotov, Noguchi and Creamer were about to conduct a standard suit leak check in preparation for the scheduled relocation of the Soyuz 21 (TMA-17) spacecraft from the Zarya nadir port to the Zvezda Service Module’s aft port on May 12, 2010. high res (1.6 M) low res (115 K)

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