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Everything is ready for the launch of the Soyuz TM-20 shuttle of today

Baikonur, Kazakhstan - That will carry on the ISS also the Italian Paolo Nespoli

Everything is ready for the launch of the Soyuz TM-20 shuttle which will take place tonight at 10:09 pm Moscow time, from the "Gagarin" platform in the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in the Kazakh steppe. The mission "MagIsstra" (a name obtained combining the Latin word "Magistra", meaning a female teacher, with the acronym of the International Space Station), lasting 152 days, will see the departure of three...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1123831
Rome, Italy, 12/15/2010 12:39
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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