Soyuz spacecraft News
An Indian astronaut may travel to the International Space Station (ISS) on board a Soyuz spacecraft for a short training mission in 2022, a Russian media report said on Wednesday, citing a source in the Russian space industry.
The Soyuz booster, currently the only vehicle that launches crews to the International Space Station, is a modification of the R-7 rocket that put Sputnik in orbit on October 4 1957.
Russia's Soyuz spacecraft has arrived at the International Space Station, carrying a European, a Russian and an American astronaut for a four-month mission at the orbiting outpost.
The Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:20 p.m. EST Thursday, November 17, 2016 (2:20 a.m. Nov. 18, Baikonur time).
The space station crew that is a part of Expedition 48/49 will be completing 115 days in space, since their launch in July.
Peake was aboard the International Space Station with two other Expedition 47 crew members, NASA's Tim Kopra and Russian Roscosmos's Yuri Malenchenko.
The launch will be aired live on NASA TV on March 18th, 2016 (March 19th, Kazakh time) at 4:30 pm EDT.
US President Obama had earlier tweeted a video of his conversation with Scott Kelly while he was in space and the world also saw tweets exchanged with the US President expressing his pride in Kelly and his work.
Kelly is an American astronaut, who took off for space on March 27, 2015 to spend 340 days aboard the International Space Station as a part of NASA's first ever longest duration single mission.
During his last 10 days, Kelly took to Twitter and tweeted pics of sunrises each day marking his countdown to the day when he would start his journey back to Earth.
NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko will be joined by Tim Peake of ESA (European Space Agency), who will become the first Briton to go to space since 1991.
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