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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
