Albert Einstein Pulls Up International Space Station

Russian board control successfully in tune the orbit of the Comprehensive Room to move Identify (ISS) on Saturday by the use of thrusters of the unmanned European spacecraft ATV-4 "Albert Einstein" docked in the station. The perigee height of the ISS is now 412 kilometers (256 miles) and apex height 418 kilometers (260 miles), a board control lecturer told RIA Novosti.

The orbit improvement was to dimensions easier the coming docking of a Soyuz spacecraft that is to turn a new revel to the ISS nearby month, the lecturer understood.

Meanwhile at the Gagarin Cosmonaut System Nucleus in Star City, Russia, three new revel members are preparing for a Sept. 25 Soyuz TMA-10M motor boat to connect their crewmates aboard the station. NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy donned Sokol motor boat and porch suits for a Soyuz moving picture as they stir up for nearby week's firm condition exams.

The Soyuz will most probable be present on assignment the space station for the Slip 38 increment to dispense as an unused stay away from exuberance.

Credit: RIA Novosti