NASA / Bill Ingalls
Another Successful Soyuz Launch... Yesterday evening, a Soyuz TMA-04M rocket carrying three new International Space Station (ISS) residents was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka, NASA Flight Engineer Joseph Acaba and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin will arrive at the ISS late tomorrow.
NASA / Bill Ingalls
On a related note, the Soyuz recently made its way in American pop culture when the Russian vehicle was featured on last Thursday's season finale of the hit CBS TV show, The Big Bang Theory. For those of you who watch this (hilarious) sitcom, aerospace engineer Howard Wolowitz (played by Simon Helberg) was chosen by NASA to fly to the ISS after an experiment he designed was selected as a payload that would be sent to the orbital outpost. Real-life astronaut Mike Massimino, who took part in two Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions (STS-109 and STS-125, respectively), had a prominent role in this episode.
Mike Massimino
If you're a regular viewer of The Big Bang Theory, you'd appreciate how the show constantly makes references to space exploration and even features cameos of, along with actual astronauts, world-renowned figures such as Stephen Hawking in its episodes. Nice to see spaceflight and science be taken seriously in Hollywood!
Mike Massimino
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