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Soyuz and Dragon Sighting Opportunities

NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba, Russian Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka and Russian Flight Engineer Sergei Revin launched on assembly flight 30S to the International Space Station aboard their Soyuz TMA-04M craft at 11:01 p.m. EDT Monday, May 14 (9:01 a.m. Tuesday, local time), from Kazakhstan. They are scheduled to dock to the Poisk module of the station at 12:38 a.m. Thursday, May 17.

The SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft is scheduled to launch on its demonstration flight to the station on May 19 at 4:55 a.m. The crew will use the station's robotic arm to grabble and berth Dragon to the Earth-facing side of the Harmony node on May 22.

Sightings of the Soyuz vehicle and Dragon cargo craft before docking may be possible over your area. Either start the SkyWatch applet or choose your country from the dropdown below to navigate to your city. From the applet, click on the Satellites tab, and select SOYUZ30S or DRAGON from the drop-down list of satellites.

Sighting Opportunities
Quick and Easy Sightings by City
Want to know when a spacecraft will be flying over your city? Select your country to find out:

Sighting Help
Sighting help
Click here for help with text-based sightings information.

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This "applet" uses up-to-the-minute data from Mission Control to project the path the spacecraft will make across the sky.

Please allow sufficient time for all files to download the first time you access NASA SkyWatch. You will be downloading approximately 300 K of data, which can take three minutes or more on a 33.6 kbps modem connection. Significantly more time will be required (more than 10 minutes) with a 14.4 kbps connection. Many files reside in the Internet cache on your hard drive and do not have to be downloaded again unless you clear the cache.

 
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Curator: Kim Dismukes | Responsible NASA Official: Amiko Kauderer | Updated: 5/15/2011
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