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Russia launches manned spacecraft
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April 5, 2011, Tuesday
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RUSSIA launched a spacecraft with three astronauts on board from the Kazakh Baikonur space center early today, Xinhua correspondents reported from the site.
The Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft atop a Soyuz-FG carrier rocket blasted off at 02:18am Moscow time (2218 GMT April 4), sending to the International Space Station (ISS) Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev and Andrei Borisenko and US astronaut Ronald Garn.
The Soyuz TMA-21, named after the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, was scheduled to dock with the ISS at 03:18am Moscow time (2318 GMT April 6) on Thursday.
According to the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), the three new crew members are expected to spend 170 days in the ISS. During the period, they will receive two US space shuttles and three Russian Progress cargo ships, conduct a spacewalk and carry out over 40 experiments.
The launch is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the first flight into space in 1961 carried out by Gagarin.
The Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft atop a Soyuz-FG carrier rocket blasted off at 02:18am Moscow time (2218 GMT April 4), sending to the International Space Station (ISS) Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev and Andrei Borisenko and US astronaut Ronald Garn.
The Soyuz TMA-21, named after the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, was scheduled to dock with the ISS at 03:18am Moscow time (2318 GMT April 6) on Thursday.
According to the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), the three new crew members are expected to spend 170 days in the ISS. During the period, they will receive two US space shuttles and three Russian Progress cargo ships, conduct a spacewalk and carry out over 40 experiments.
The launch is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the first flight into space in 1961 carried out by Gagarin.
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