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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2012 8:42:26 GMT -6
New Start: Space Station Crew Lifts Off from Revived Russian Launch Pad by Robert Z. Pearlman, collectSPACE.com Editor Date: 23 October 2012 Time: 09:36 AM ET One astronaut, two cosmonauts and 32 live fish left Earth for the International Space Station(ISS) Tuesday morning (Oct. 23), lifting off from a Russian launch pad that has not been used for manned missions for almost three decades. Russia's Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft, riding atop a Soyuz FG booster, blasted off from launch pad 6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome's Site 31 in Kazakhstan at 6:51 a.m. EDT (1051 GMT). Flying under the call sign "Kazbek," Soyuz TMA-06M commander Oleg Novitskiy soared space-ward with Roscosmos cosmonaut Evgeny Tarelkin and NASA astronaut Kevin Ford. Destined for docking at the space station on Wednesday (Oct. 25), the three are set to join the orbiting laboratory's 33rd expedition crew. Novitskiy, Tarelkin and Ford will be met aboard the ISS by commander and NASA astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams, cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Akihiko "Aki" Hoshide, representing the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Continue reading here : www.space.com/18177-space-station-launch-russian-pad-revived.html
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2012 11:47:42 GMT -6
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