Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft launch from Baikonur
26 May 2013. The rocket is taken out of the assembly and test complex and transported to the launch site in the Kazakh steppe on a special train at a speed of about 5 km / h. (Photo by NASA | Bill Ingalls):
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Transportation "Union" on the launch pad of Baikonur, 26 May 2013. (Photo by NASA | Bill Ingalls):
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Welcome to Baikonur, 25 May 2013. (Photo by NASA | Bill Ingalls):
Also read the article “Baikonur Cosmodrome and Star City”. (Photo by NASA | Bill Ingalls):
The launch of the spacecraft took place from the launch pad No. 1 - the so-called “Gagarin Start”. (Photo by NASA | Bill Ingalls):
Raising the rocket to a vertical position on the launch pad, Baikonur, 26 May 2013. (Photo by NASA | Bill Ingalls):
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The new 36 / 37 expedition, like the previous 2013 of the year in March, traveled to the International Space Station in a “short” six-hour scheme. Before that, all manned Soyuz spacecraft flew to the ISS for two days. (Photo by NASA | Bill Ingalls):
The main advantage of flying on the 6-hour scheme is that the crew of the spacecraft does not have time to feel weightlessness, because its effect on the body begins to affect approximately after 5 hours of flight. (Photo by NASA | Bill Ingalls):
At the traditional press conference, Baikonur, 27 May 2013. Russian cosmonaut Fedor Yurchikhin (center), NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg (right) and European Space Agency astronaut Luka Parmitano went into orbit. Fedor Yurchikhin - the most experienced member of the team, this flight was for him the fourth. (Photo by NASA | Bill Ingalls):
Russian “know-how” - rocket blessing, Baikonur, 27 May 2013. (Photo by NASA | Bill Ingalls):
Go! The launch of the Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft from the Baikonur launch site, 29 in May 2013. (Photo by NASA | Bill Ingalls):
Start took place from the site number XXUMX, or "Gagarinsky start." The Soyuz TMA-1М spacecraft docked with the ISS on May 09 on 29: 06 Moscow time in fully automatic mode. (Photo by NASA | Bill Ingalls):
The astronauts will have to do a lot of research and experimentation on the ISS, take video and photograph, meet space trucks of the Progress series and 6 once to go into outer space. Baikonur Cosmodrome, 29 May 2013. (Photo by NASA | Bill Ingalls):
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