Photo #175985

Soyuz TMA-2 spaceship being launched from the Baikonur space center toward the Internaitonal Space Station. The seventh long-term Russian-US expedition: commander Yury Malenchenko and flight engineer Edward Lu--are to replace the station dwellers Nikolai Budarin (Russia), Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox (USA) and keep the ISS operational for the next six months.
Categories: | Science & Technology |
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Location: | Baykonur, Kazakhstan |
Event date: | 27.04.2003 |
Import date: | 01.10.2007 |
Author: | Vladimir Vyatkin |
Keywords: | Space, space programs |
Source: | Sputnik |
Credit: | Sputnik |
Original: | И03-3088, 35 mm film |