“Soyuz MS-03” with the cosmic champion and musician was launched to the ISS
BAIKONUR /Kazakhstan/ 17 Nov. /TASS/. The spacecraft “Soyuz MS-03” with the next International space station crew launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, reported TASS the representative of Roscosmos.
“The launch of the carrier rocket “Soyuz-FG” with transport manned spacecraft “Soyuz MS-03,” — said the representative of the Corporation.
The current expedition is an anniversary — it is 50-th launch to the ISS.
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To the ISS on the ship went Russian Oleg Novitsky, American Peggy Whitson and astronaut of the European space Agency pesquet. Nowicki will visit space for the second time. Whitson is the world record for the total duration of orbit among women (377 days), will visit the station for the third time. The sand, which is his first space flight, scheduled to play the saxophone, which can be delivered on one of the cargo ships.
After nine and a half minutes after liftoff, the spacecraft will go into orbit and will head to the ISS. Autonomous flight of “Soyuz-MS” will last two days. During this time it is planned to test the ship’s systems to a new series. Docking of “Soyuz MS-03” to the module Rassvet of the Russian segment of the ISS is scheduled for 01:02 GMT 20 Nov.
Originally this launch was scheduled for 16 November, but was postponed for ballistic reasons. Unlike the previous ship “Soyuz MS-02” launch date which is due to cable fault in the control system of the lander moved from 23 September to 19 October, to endure the flight “Soyuz MS-03” to the ISS from November to December did not.