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Description: The Soyuz TMA-18 rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday, April 2, 2010 carrying three Expedition 23 crew members to the International Space Station. Onboard were Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov, Soyuz commander and Expedition 23 flight engineer; and Mikhail Kornienko, flight engineer, along with NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, flight engineer. Launch occurred at 10:04 a.m., Kazakhstan time.
Title: Soyuz TMA-18 launching
Credit: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-23/html/201004020001hq.html (direct link)
Author: NASA/Carla Cioffi
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