With such a two-month delay yesterday evening three astronauts left for the International Space Station. It is the Russian Oleg Kononenko, American Kjell Lindgren and the Japanese Kimiya Yui. They left aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baikonur. The space capsule Sojus TMA-17M “would be after about six hours should reach the ISS, about 400 kilometers from the earth.
The Russian Oleg Kononenko (center), the American Kjell Lindgren (linkds) and the Japanese Kimiya Yui (right). © epa. The manned flight from the steppes of Kazakhstan was originally scheduled for May 26th. But the mission was postponed due to the failure of a cargo flight end of April. Then, also the return of the current team shifted in the ISS to a later date. Russia has in recent months seen fail a few launches.
Kononenko, Lindgren and Yui pledged before the start that they were well prepared and made them worry.
The three will remain 163 days in space. It is the intention that they will return to the earth, in December.
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