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The Soyuz TMA-16 launched to the ISS

Baikonur, Kazakhstan - It carries the crew of Expedition 21 and the space tourist Guy Laliberte

Flight engineers Jeffrey Williams and Maxim Suraev launched in their Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7:14 am GMT this morning to begin a six-month stay in space. Docking to the ISS is scheduled for Friday. With Williams and Suraev is spaceflight participant Guy Laliberte, Canadian billonaire founder of the "Cirque du Soleil", who paid about US$35 million for...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1109612
Rome, Italy, 09/30/2009 17:20
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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