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Roscosmos postpones the launch of Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft

Astana, Kazakhstan - Previously scheduled for March 30th

Roscosmos's spokesman Alexander Vorobyev today unveiled to the media that the Russian Federal Space Agency has decided to postpone the launch of the TMA-21 spacecraft due to technical problems. The spacecraft should have left to the ISS, International Space Station, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, next Wednesday at 04:43 Moscow time (see AVIONEWS), but during the pre-launch tests the...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1126962
Rome, Italy, 03/14/2011 15:29
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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