Russian Rocket Launches Astronauts on Holiday Space Station Trip
by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com Assistant Managing Editor
Date: 21 December 2011 Time: 08:16 AM ET
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The Russian TMA-03M Soyuz spacecraft launches Dec. 21 from
Kazakhstan, carrying three new crewmembers to the International Space
Station. CREDIT: NASA TV |
NASA astronaut Don Pettit, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, and Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers, part of the European Space Agency (ESA), lifted off atop the Russian Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8:16 a.m. EST (1316 GMT).
The trio is bound for the space station, where they are scheduled to dock on Friday (Dec. 23) at 10:22 a.m. EST (1522 GMT). They are set to begin a roughly five-month stay on the orbiting outpost as part of the station's Expedition 30 mission, and will return in May 2012.
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