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Year in Space Flight for Russian/American Crew Starts With Spectacular Night Launch and Station Docking
The Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft is seen as it launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 43’s NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) onboard Friday, March 27 (Saturday, March 28 Kazakh time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
The first ever ‘One-Year Mission’ to the International Space Station (ISS) started with a bang today, March 27, with the spectacular night time launch of the Russian/American crew from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:42 p.m. EDT Friday (1:42 a.m., March 28 in Baikonur and culminated with a flawless docking this evening.
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka launched aboard a Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft to the International Space Station precisely on time today on the Expeditions 43 mission.(…)
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Post tags: 1 Year ISS mission, 1 Year Mission, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Charlie Bolden, Gennady Padalka, human spaceflight, International Space Station (ISS), ISS, mikhail kornienko, NASA, Roscosmos, Scott Kelly, Soyuz
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