Expedition 32 Flight Engineer Suni Williams shares photos of her crew's Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft prior to launch in her latest blog entry.
http://go.usa.gov/f3X Agat and the Business End
July 12, 2012
We got to go into the Soyuz spacecraft one last time to check it out, to see where our stuff is stowed, and to make sure everything is where we want it. Agat is beautiful! I refer to her as Agat since that is Yuri Malenchenko's call sign.
If you watch the launch on NASA TV you will most likely hear his call sign on the radio. Yuri is Agat 1, I am Agat 2 and Aki (Akihiko Hoshide) is Agat 3. Right now the capsule (and covering) is not mated to the booster and she is standing upright. They will turn her on her side to be moved and mated.
This is our booster the business end! You can see it is on its side, and is ready for the capsule. The entire stack will stay on its side and be rolled out to the launch pad on Thursday!
