Expedition 30 Soyuz Spacecraft Integration and Rocket Roll Out to the Launch Pad

[JNathanK2011]

Cosmonauts and Astronauts unite.

[malaysiancarrental]

when my country could built this kind of aircraft?

[xXDEICIDE216Xx]

Apollo (saturn V) and the Soyuz are my two favorite rockets.

[ThunderHead72]

I miss the space shuttle and I have always been a NASA buff, but have you seen how these guys launch? They let these things go up in IFR conditions, nothing short of a piece of broken hardware stops them. They are like Cessna or Grumman airplanes fueled by liquid oxygen and rocket grade kerosene and just as reliable. This is how the rest of us need to build rockets if we are to compete.

[EMTFlyer]

Good Luck and God Speed from California USA!

[crapgaz]

Totally absorbing film..fascinating!!

[Debesukaleejs]

I wonder where Russians would be now if they had so much money as NASA do.

[xXDEICIDE216Xx]

In no particular order. Soyuz, Saturn are my to favorite rockets... Whatching them asseble a soyuz is a real treat! Thanks Russia! I love you guys!

[patsaxon]

Sadly in America, NASA is being abandon and space research could lead to new technology and possibly a new fuel to take the place of gas. We need space technology to advance our science exploration, medical science, and alterntive fuel and energy. It would bring hope for our world.

[sounda]

Keep on keeping on and explore the universe!

[pearlmax]

I bet it has a reconstructed title.

[nypete480]

I hope they bolted that thing together well enough

[MattJGUK]

Godspeed Soyuz TMA-03M!

[laurence265]

all that work to send 3 people up? impressive.

[RufftaMan]

@laurence265 indeed!

i guess it's about time to come up with a reliably working and 100% reusable spacecraft. something you just have to re-fuel and send up again.

imagine you had to parachute all the passengers off an airplane and let it crash into a mountain after every flight, then build a new one.. =/

all the best to the expedition 30 crew!

have a good trip.

[AVPionut44USCM]

ATOMIC BOMB!!!!

[soverato3]

is the soyuz going with retirement D"""":

[ArthursChannel]

This reminds me of a scenario in Command & Conquer Generals. :)

[nelis555]

Succes André!!

[khunopie]

IS THIS FOR SANTA?

[louielamson2000]

All set for Tomorrow, Dec 21 Launch. Good Luck and be SafeTravels for NASA Astronaut Don Pettit, Russian Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, European Space Agency Astronaut Andre Kuipers.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Best wishes.

Greetings from Hanoi Vietnam.

[timrs2001]

Good luck folks! Safe travels. :)

[JuggaloOzi]

Huge balls? What do you think the thing they're bolting on at the start of the video is? That's the launch escape tower that will pull the crew to safety in the event of a catastrophic failure. Soyuz is a very safe human rated launch vehicle.

[cruxader27]

what time in UTC is their launch?

[CrawSpecificated]

9:43 That rocket looks so cool...

[smorchaa]

It is a damn good rocket.Try to launch an orbiter at -10 dеgrees,no оne can do it exept the russians!

[yonkaiiku]

Nice, I wanna work on NASA.

[joey8526ny]

with all the metal that we used for the past space shuttles and now for these rockets they could have done one small spaceships like the star trek ones .lmao

[rahulras]

Argh some of you just act patriotic it isn't about how you get to sspace its about discovery and passion and living together in the ISS as a family so shut up and stop complaining

[drunksmokingjurkk]

that doesn't look very safe.

[MattJGUK]

@drunksmokingjurkk If it wasn't, NASA wouldn't be risking astronauts.

[kallacomb]

@drunksmokingjurkk The Soyuz spacecraft is currently the most reliable human spaceflight system, so, no.

[6Diego1Diego9]

-14

[cyberbadger]

Why does it have the American flag on the soyuz rocket body? For Don Pettit?

[kavithewolf]

@cyberbadger Its a cooperation between the two nations.

[mchattie2222]

there has to be a different way of getting out of our atmosphere Im thinking mountains and magnets.

[KarthikSoun]

Why not launch with ISRO, wont it be cheaper? 

[lz009]

Does not matter about Russia or U.S. in power. The matter is working together to explore!!

[lunrfish]

Just Fantastic! Great video. 15 below, Brrrrr. I would love to visit the Cosmodrome, one Day, one Day.........

[2eelShmeal]

Good Luck from your American Comrades! I don't care what my government tells me, I love all the people of the world.

[eonvee375]

@2eelShmeal thx dude ^^

[SantiagoChavezHenao]

Awesome!!!

[1Nekit1]

Go Russians!

[view52]

Keeping it simple has worked for the Russians for decades

[AgrivatedKillah]

It's a sad day when NASA has to upload highlights from another space program... NASA is failing to inspire Americans once again..

[adamcrookedsmile]

@AgrivatedKillah

I think it is a happy day if civilian NASA engineers are on location to film this. Baikonur used to be a high-security military installation to develop nuclear tipped ICBMs.

[monokhem]

@AgrivatedKillah Nasa didn't "need" to upload this, and Nasa is still, by far, the best space program in the world. Remember, the Russians multi billion dollar mars probe just burned up in atmosphere and the US is now sending the most advanced Mars mission ever while the rover from our last Mars mission is still working. The Russians don't even have a plan to send humans past Leo. They are just living off the accomplishments and technological developments of the USSR.

[inka9]

@AgrivatedKillah Why beeing such an individualist? The spaceagencies has to learn to cooperate eventually to reach the big goals. Your way of thinking belongs to the 70's. NASA has so many great things going these days, so how you manage to be disappointed at NASA is beyond me.

[DVA5656]

@AgrivatedKillah You are obviously not knowledgeable on the situation. Know the facts before you go commenting on videos.

[DXMediaTV]

While NASA sits with it's thumb up it ass testing 50 year old design ideas Russia rakes in the $.

[djtowo]

@DXMediaTV ..it still is the most statisticly safe way to fly, yes, it is not the best pr, but it's buisniss, The cheapest + the best way/ pdollar will roll

[geomodelrailroader]

next stop for Soyuz the pad where it will wait until Wednesday.

[Digilinus]

The previous Soyuz launched in a near blizzard .

The Soyuz R-7 launch vehicle was the original ICBM for

the Soviets, and designed to fly in all weather conditions.

Russian does not use Solid Rocket Boosters on any Man

rated launchers.

[hackneysaregreat]

Very impressive, all those special lifting and securing tools are amazing.

And I still volunteer for a ride to the ISS

[jorge10928]

It's funny how we treat spacecraft so gently because of the possibility of damaging it,but when they take off there are all sorts of violent shaking and vibrations and it can still hold itself together.

[SirSneakE]

Any craft that fly's in space is so beautiful.

[smorchaa]

Hell yeah Russia rocz.

[mphet26]

Together we can reach to Sirius!

[ozzymuzzy246]

@mphet26 but never come back :D

[mphet26]

@ozzymuzzy246 But together! :P

[akulax2]

I always loved Soviet/Russian rockets. Especially the entire Cosmodrome. It looks so phenomenal and so pretty when rockets take off from there. NASA as well does amazing things. Both countries have done incredible things to archive space exploration and understanding of our universe and uncover secrets of our world. God bless both of them!

[smorchaa]

@akulax2 That is well said.

[Nomoreidsleft]

The Russians can launch rockets, in this kind of cold. And they claim that sitting in the Florida "cold" caused the O-rings on the Challenger boosters to fail?! Something is not right there.

[mphet26]

@Nomoreidsleft Russian made their rockets without any comforts cuz for us it is a military objects. When US will not begin to do any thing without insulation and soft seats in their vehicles.

I believe that Russian missiles can be launched from Antarctica.

[Nomoreidsleft]

@mphet26 I wouldn't really equate uncomfortable seats with a good quality rocket. After all, there's no point in sending people up in rockets, if they don't survive the trip, in a condition that allows them to do their work up there. I'm sure the US don't spend on their efforts on astronaut comfort, and neglect the rocket itself. It seems strange that the space shuttle, was meant to withstand the space environment could not be launched successfully in Florida's weather.

[adamcrookedsmile]

@Nomoreidsleft

The mean temperature in Florida in January is 20C. The overnight temperature on the preceding night was -18C, a difference of nearly 40 degrees C, that is quite a lot. The boosters were certified down to +4C. It wasn't an engineering failure, it was very unusual weather conditions coupled with a dysfunctional management culture that caused the accident.

[Redliner500]

@Nomoreidsleft because of the salt water is why the O rings degrade

[Nomoreidsleft]

@Redliner500 No, you should read the official report. It was temperature that caused o-ring failure. The shuttle was never in direct contact with salt water, and not out there nearly enough time for the salt to degrade any component. I drive cars in Canada, with salted roads, and they usually last for a few years before any salt induced failure.

[sledger25]

@Nomoreidsleft the russians do not use external SRB's like the space shuttle does... it is also very rare that the temperature got as cold as it did the morning of the Challenger disaster.

[louielamson2000]

HELL DIANNE. I THINK YOU WILL LIKE THIS VIDEO.

[giofrasa]

Cool !

[MikeSkanz]

a beautiful rocket !

[darthgabriel97]

Love seeing russians and americans working together instead of comprting with one and another. Thanks for the video NASA !

[FrankzTerz]

Simple, incredible. Thank you for uploading this NASA.

[jhenriquesjr]

It´s a military plant?



[A1R5N1P3R]

@jhenriquesjr No, it's a cactus...

[ramon709]

Btw, you need to have huge balls to dare and sit in that little pod on top of the huge rocket. Respect!

[zv77rus]

@ramon709 how do they manage to fit those huge balls into that little pod?!

[ramon709]

Cool, an astronaut from my country will be on it wednesday!

[aserta]

It's funny because at nasa and jpl they work under nine overlapping layers of cleanex yet these guys... XD

[basvg1]

@aserta This is just the rocket, not a sensitive satellite. At NASA it's the same way for handling rockets: parts of it are even constructed at the launch pad, in open air.

[AreYouHappyYet]

Wow amazing how far the tech has gotten. thank you for sharing...

[mariamole011]

@AreYouHappyYet ye, it is hich tech, and the all process of taking It to the launch pad was done slowly and smooth.

[Defisim2005]

very interesting

thanks NASA