Next landing: Soyuz TMA-03M - June 2012 (tbd)
1. DayFlights from Frankfurt (or your international airport) to Moscow.
Pick up at the airport by guide and transfer to the Hotel "Soyuz Resort.
Check in to hotel, dinner.
After dinner, briefing on the next day and talk about the mission.
2. Day
Breakfast at hotel.
Ride to Star City.
Visit (2.5 hours) Yuri A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre.
Lunch at the Cosmonaut Restaurant.
In the afternoon visiting the Yuri A. Gagarin Museum, Star City.
Return to the hotel, dinner at hotel.
At 23:40 departure from the airport Domodedevo to Karaganda, Kazakhstan.
3. Day
Arrival in Karaganda at 05:10 (local time +3 hours Moscow Time).
Hotel Transportation.
Breakfast at hotel.
Then admissions into the program of the next few days and introduction of the mission. Safety briefings and instruction on the behavior at the landing site.
Lunch at the hotel
Afternoon rest time or time for independent sightseeings of the city Karaganda.
Dinner at the hotel.
4. Day
Breakfast at hotel.
Then you will have the chance to be at press conference of the rescue and recovery teams.
Lunch at the hotel.
Ca. 24 hours before the landing will occur, it will be decided whether we start in a Jeep in the direction of landing area, or are transported by the helicopters into the landing area.
In general, we will do the jeep tour, this is unique in the world. Depending on the time of landing (we must be about 5 hours before landing at the meeting point with the rescue team), the Jeep-caravan is in motion perpendicular to the 450 miles through the desert towards the landing area.
5. Day/6th Day*
After about 5 - 6 hours we hit the rescue team at a selected position, and move together across the steppe to the landing point. That this is a special adventure that can only be compared with a rally, we do not need a special mention.
Observation of the re-entry of the Soyuz capsule. Travel by jeep to the landing point of the capsule. You can watch the recovery of the cosmonauts out of the Soyuz capsule only 2 m in distance!
Attending to the recovery of the Cosmonaute and the following routines. After medical and psychological check ups, the cosmonauts will be transported by helicopter to Karaganda.
We make ourselves back on the jeeps towards Karaganda where we arrive late in the evening (return flight MI-8 helicopter is possible but will be decided on location) If we are brought back to MI-8 helicopters, we will be watching the welcome ceremony at the airport of Karaganda. But, as we said: this could be happen. It is not to expected!
Dinner at the hotel.
Free time.
6. Day/7. Day*
Breakfast at hotel.
Sightseeing Karaganda.
Farewelldinner in the evening in the hotel or in a restaurant.
7. Day/8. Day*
Breakfast at hotel.
Airport transfer Karaganda.
Return flight to Moscow 07:35 (local time Karaganda).
Arrival in Moscow 08:35 (Moscow time) at the airport Domodedevo.
Then return flight to your home destination, or doing with us together another program!
Price: starting at 6.450,00 Euro p.p. at least in a group of 8 people (without flights to Moscow and back & visa costs).
*The given time schedule could be changed. tbd)
Services:
- All domestic flights Moscow - Karaganda - Moscow.
- All transportation with their own and well-equipped buses in Moscow.
- Guides site (English / German / Russian).
- 3(4) nights full board at the respective landing sites in Baikonur / Arkalik, Astana and Karaganda.
- 1 night in Moscow Hotel "Soyuz Resort.
- Transport to and from the landing sites with 4-Wheel Drive vehicles (mission and decision-dependent).
- (Depending on mission and landing) on site inspection tours.
- Attending from landing at the various landing places (Baikonur / Arkalik, Astana, Karaganda region or region).
- Support program by Space Travellers.
- Visa Assistance.
- Video film and digital images of the entire trip (on DVD, cut version).
- Certificate of attendance at the landing.
- All meals on site including Farewelldinner on the last night (no alcohol).
- Individual support by staff of Space Travellers.
Note:
The landing of the Soyuz can often move ahead, landing sites can vary. You need to prove very flexible if you want to experience this tour. We unfortunately have to point out that it is not to be guaranteed with absoluty certainty, that you will see the landing. It is dependent on many factors, what we can’t influence. SPACE TRAVELLERS however, is doing everything that you attend at the landing.
You need a double entry visa for Russia and a Visa for Kazakhstan. SPACE TRAVELLERS will assist you for receiving the visa for this trip.
Contact us directly for asking your questions and send us a mail to info[at]space-travellers[dot]com in regards of “Soyuz Landing Program”. You can use also our request form.
Program executed by: Roskosmos, Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Space Travellers