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Rocket launch "Soyuz" photographed from the ISS

Added	Thu, 06/12/2018
Источники	gismeteo.ru
Дата публикации	Wed, 05/12/2018
Версии	Booster, the rocket and tracks

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst made a stunning photo of the Soyuz rocket, which on December 3 delivered to the ISS a new crew. The international space station offers an exceptional prospect to launch missiles from the ground.

Gerst shared photos on Twitter and in comments greeted their new "roommates" — Anne McClain of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and David Saint-Jacques from the Canadian space Agency.

Starting December 3, which was carried out from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan was the first run with the crew after an unsuccessful start of the carrier rocket "Soyuz MS-10" on 11 October, when the accident occurred the carrier and the crew made an emergency landing.

This time everything went exactly according to plan. "Soyuz MS-11" docked to the Russian module Poisk at 20:33 Moscow time after a six-hour orbital flight. 22:38 the crew opened the hatches and moved aboard the ISS.

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