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  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: Agencies
  • 11 Sep 2024 21:03
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The launch proceeded normally, with the crew seated in their space suits inside the descent module.

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  • A Soyuz 2.1a rocket roars to life and climbs away from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying two veteran cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut on a flight to the International Space Station.
    A Soyuz 2.1a rocket roars to life and climbs away from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying two veteran cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut on a flight to the International Space Station (NASA/RosCosmos)

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft, carrying two Russian cosmonauts, Alexei Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, and US astronaut Donald Pettit, successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday.

The Soyuz MS-26 took off at 7:23 pm Moscow time, with video footage from Russia's Roscosmos space agency showing the spacecraft entering orbit.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit (@astro_pettit) and cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner are safely in orbit aboard the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 12:23pm ET. Docking is set for 3:33pm later today. https://t.co/DRj5h0DfV9 pic.twitter.com/QUtFdrnc9o

— International Space Station (@Space_Station) September 11, 2024

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The launch proceeded normally, with the crew seated in their space suits inside the descent module.

Today with crew we walk the line, next stop @iss pic.twitter.com/0UnU6PLdZ7

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