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Soyuz-Fg launched with the TMA-03M spaceshuttle and crew on board (VIDEO)

Baikonur, Kazakhstan - Travelling towards the ISS

As announced yesterday by AVIONEWS, the Soyuz-FG rocket was launched yesterday at 5.16pm Moscow time, sending the space shuttle TMA-03M in orbit with three men on board, cosmonaut and commander of the mission of the Russian space Agency Roscosmos Oleg Kononenko, the one from ESA (European Space Agency) Andre Kaupers and Donald Pettite of NASA (American Space Agency). The launch took place from the...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1136561
Rome, Italy, 12/22/2011 14:20
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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