Soyuz rocket launch spotted from space station in amazing astronaut photos - Space.com
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) saw their newest set of crewmates depart Earth today (Sept. 21).A Russian Soyuz rocket launched cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin and NASA's Frank Rubio to orbit from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan this morning.Sergey, Dmitry and Frank will come knocking on our door in just a couple of hours … looking forward to welcoming them to their new home!" European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti said via Twitter today (opens in new tab), in a post that included two photos of the launch from on high. .
In photos: Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti takes Europe's historic 1st female spacewalk.Hines posted some photos of today's Soyuz launch on Twitter as well."Ever wonder what a [rocket] launch looks like from space.
— International Space Station: Pictures, facts and history.— Amazing launch photos of SpaceX's Crew-4 astronaut mission.— Soyuz spacecraft: Backbone of the Russian space program.NASA's Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata and cosmonaut Anna Kikina are scheduled to launch to the orbiting lab on Oct.
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