Soyuz TMA-17 blasting off

Live NASA TV retransmitted with French commentary on Enjoy Space.

 

The 3 astronauts aboard the Soyuz TMA-17 (left to right): American T.J. Creamer, Russian Oleg Kotov and Japanese Soichi Noguchi. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov

Update: launch successful. EnjoySpaceTV replay down below.

Today, 20 December, the Russian Soyuz TMA-17 spaceship is to blast off from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on its way to the International Space Station where it will dock two days later.
The 3 astronauts aboard the TMA-17 (see photograph below) will therefore join American Jeffrey Williams and Russian Maxim Suraev who are already on board the orbital complex. The ISS’ Expedition 22 will then total 5 crew members.




Expedition 22 on the NASA website

Publié le 20 décembre 2009