SOYUZ TMA-04M - MAY 2012
1. DayArrival at Moscow airport Sheremetyevo II or Domodedevo(*).
Welcome to the airport with your guide.
Transportation to Star City with the bus.
Check in nearby located hotel "Soyuz".
Welcome drink.
Dinner in your hotel.
2. Day
Breakfast in your hotel.
Sightseeing tour GCTC (duration 3.5 hours).
Lunch in Star City.
Sightseeing Yuri Gagarin Museum of Star City.
Dinner in your hotel.
3. Day
Breakfast in your hotel.
Transport with the bus to the Vukovo airport.
Flight with continental flight from Moscow to Baikonur (Duration 2.5 hours, Economy class).
Arrival at the airport, welcome at the airport of Baikonur.
Immigration with help of your local guide.
Transport with the Bus to the hotel "Baikonur", check in hotel.
Dinner in the hotel "Baikonur".
4. Day
Early in the morning (approx. 4.30 am) transport with the bus to the "Soyuz-Integration Hall".
Participation at the so called "Roll out" of the Soyuz-Roket with mounted Soyuz spacecraft.
You will transport with the bus nearby the railway-road to the launch-pad.
On the launch pad you will see the preperations of the Soyuz rocket. Your special guide is a engineer and will explain all things and will answer you all questions.
After the launch preperations, sightseeing with your special guide around the launch-pad.
Transport with the bus to the hotel "Baikonur".
Ca. 2:00 pm lunch at the hotel "Baikonur".
At afternnoon sightseeing launch pads for Buran- and Energia-launch-pads with special engineers from Energia.
Sightseeing of the facilities of "Energia".
In the evening dinner at the hotel "Baikonur".
5. Day
Breakfast in the hotel "Baikonur".
Ca. 10:00 am: Participation on the international press-conference with the main- and backup-crew of Soyuz-TMA 04M.
Sightseeing "Cosmonaut walk of fame" and "Nehelyn-Monument".
Lunch in the Hotel "Baikonur".
In the afternoon sightseeing of the Gagarin- and Korolov-cottages with a special guide, visiting of the Baikonur space museum.
In the evening dinner in the hotel "Baikonur".
6. Day
Midnight: Participation at the "farewell of the cosmonauts". The cosmonauts are coming out of their hotel. People will say "good beye" in front of the hotel. You will transported with a bus to the Energia-Complex. There you can watch the pressure-test of the cosmonauts with their Sokol flight suits.
Transport to the launch-pad.
Reserved place on the VIP-stage (Distance to the launch-pad: approx. 2 kilometres).
Special guides will attain you during the lift off.
After sucessful liftoff, you will be transported to the hotel "Baikonur", checkout and transportation with the bus to the Baikonur airport.
Departure to Moscow (Flight duration 2.5 hours, economy class).
Pickup at the airport (Domodevedo or Vukovo), transportation to Star City, check in hotel.
7. Day
Breakfast in the hotel.
In the morning visiting of the Energia Space Museum, Moscow.
Lunch in Moscow.
In the afternoon Moscow Tour.
Dinner in the hotel.
8. Day
Breakfast in the hotel*.
Drive to the city of Koroljov*.
Live docking of Soyuz at the ISS at the Mission Control Centre, Koroljov*.
Lunch in Moscow or in the hotel*.
At the afternoon visiting the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics, Moscow*.
Farewell dinner of the group in the hotel.
9. Day
Check out hotel and transportation to the Sheremetyevo II airport.
Departure to Germany (or your home destination) at the afternoon (*).
* Times depending on the docking schedule of Soyuz at the ISS.
(*)Flight price to and from Moscow is not included.
Attention: Given times and days could change in advance or shortly before the planned liftoff.