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Photos: Soyuz launches new station crew with spectacular autumn blastoff – Spaceflight Now
Photos released by Russia’s space agency show the launch of a Soyuz booster Wednesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut heading for the International Space Station.
The 162-foot-tall (49-meter) Soyuz-2.1a rocket took off from Pad No. 31 at Baikonur at 10:45:04 a.m. local time Wednesday. Liftoff occurred at 0545:04 GMT (1:45:04 a.m. EDT).
The Soyuz rocket’s kerosene-fueled engines generated more than 900,000 pounds of thrust to propel th…
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