November 13, 2011
(L-R) US astronaut Dan Burbank and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin at a press conference at the Baikonur cosmodrome on November 12. Russia on Monday launches three astronauts for the International Space Station on a key mission Moscow hopes will restore faith in its space program after an unprecedented string of failures. [...]
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April 9, 2011
The Russian Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft, named after the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, blasts off at the Baikonur cosmodrome, April 5, 2011. A Soyuz craft adorned with a portrait of the first man in space docked with the International Space Station Thursday, days before the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering flight. US astronaut Ron Garan [...]
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October 18, 2009
The Progress M-03M, Russia’s third modified cargo craft, docked with the International Space Station early Sunday morning, the Mission Control Center outside Moscow announced. International Space Station is seen from space shuttle Discovery on March 25, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters File Photo)The docking was completed in automatic mode at 05:41 a.m. local time (0141 GMT), a control [...]
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October 1, 2009
A Russian spaceship with two astronauts and one space tourist aboard blasted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. The Russian Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft carrying the crew of Canadian billionaire Guy Laliberte , Russian cosmonaut Maxim Surayev and U.S. astronaut Jeffrey Williams blasts off from Baikonur cosmodrome September 30, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)Local [...]
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