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Russian Soyuz Rocket Takes off for 100th Rendeveau with Space Station

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Russian Soyuz Rocket Takes off for 100th Rendeveau with Space Station


16.06.2010

A Russian manned spaceship Soyuz with a Russo-American crew on board blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome at 01:35, Moscow time, on Wednesday, Itar-Tass reports. This is a jubilee flight -- a 100th one -- under the International Space Station (ISS) programme.

The Soyuz TMA-19 is to deliver the ISS-24/25 crew -- Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA astronauts Douglas Willock and Shannon Walker -- to orbit for them to work there for about five months. The Soyuz spaceship is to dock with the ISS at 03:10, Moscow time, on June 18, said an official at Roscosmos (Federal Space Agency).

The ISS-24/25 crew who will join Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Korniyenko and American astronaut Tracy Caldwell-Dyson, who have been working on board the ISS since the beginning of April.

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