Soyuz spacecraft blasts off
December 21st, 2009 - 1:04 pm ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )Baikonur (Kazakhstan), Dec 21 (RIA Novosti) The Soyuz spacecraft, carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), was launched here in the early hours of Monday.
The TMA-17 spacecraft was launched at 00:52 hrs from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan and it separated from the Soyuz-FG booster on schedule.
It is scheduled to dock with the ISS in the automated mode Wednesday.
The spacecraft carries Russia’s Oleg Kotov, NASA’s Timothy Creamer and Japan’s Soichi Noguchi, who are to join the current ISS crew of US astronaut Jeff Williams and Russian Maxim Surayev.
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