Next Soyuz Rolls To Launchpad For Fast Track Flight To The Space Station

A Soyuz rocket is rolled out to the launch pad by train on Monday, Sept. 23, 2013, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Carla Cioffi. A new Soyuz is now on the pad, ready to bring the next crew to the International Space Station. Launch is scheduled for at 20:58 UTC (4:58 p.m. EDT) on September 25. This is the third Soyuz spacecraft to use the new abbreviated rendezvous trajectory with the ISS, where it will reach the space station in just a few hours instead of the usual two days. Below is a video of the rollout to the pad. (...)Read the rest of Next Soyuz Rolls to Launchpad for Fast-Track Flight to the Space Station (236 words)
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