The Company That Engineer Innovative Aviation Solutions

Soyuz TMA12M Launch, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan (NASA, International Space Station, 03/25/14)


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One of the three Expedition 39 crew members currently onboard the International Space Station photographed this image of the departure from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 21:18:03 GMT, March 25 (March 26, Kazakh time) of two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut in the Soyuz TMA12M. Inside the space station were Expediton 39 Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin and NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, both flight engineers. Inside the Soyuz on route to meet the present inhabitants was another Expedition 39 trio — Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of Rosmosmos and Flight Engineers Steve Swanson of NASA and Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos.

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