Start "Soyuz TMA-20M" spacecraft

• Start the spacecraft "Soyuz TMA-20M"

March 19 from Baikonur launched the spacecraft "Soyuz TMA-20M". On board there is a logo - a stylized image of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in the headset. On board the "Union" also flaunts his famous phrase: "Let's go!" And the numbers "1961-2016" in honor of the 55th anniversary of the flight. The planned duration of the new expedition will be 173 days.

Beautiful photos from the start.

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The launch vehicle with the transport ship "Soyuz TMA-20M".

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She was taken out of the assembly and test facility in the direction of the launch pad. Kazakhstan, Baikonur, 16 March 2016.

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Rocket driven to their destination on a special train for about 2 hours. The speed of movement of the composition - 5 km / h. During transportation of the launch vehicle to the launch pad to take special security measures - are in the air police helicopters, on the sides of the railway track - armored vehicles with armed soldiers, they also accompany the train to the "Union".

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Baikonur Cosmodrome, March 16, 2016.

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The next step - the rise of the rocket in a vertical position at the launch pad at Baikonur.

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Technological farm (tower) provide rigid fixation missiles in an upright position before the start, and at the time of launch are disconnected (rejected) from the rocket. March 16, 2016.

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Here is the "closing" of towers on long exposure.

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Press Conference on the logo background with a portrait of Yuri Gararina. We went into orbit the Russians Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka and NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams.

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has already become a tradition before the start of the rocket sanctification. And the press ... Baikonur, March 16, 2016.

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Another tradition before the start - to sign on the door of his room at the hotel "Cosmonaut" where usually live crew members before the start. Baikonur, March 18, 2016.

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On the spaceship "Soyuz TMA-20M" there is an inscription dedicated to the 55th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight into space. It is a round logo, about a meter in diameter, with a portrait of the first cosmonaut of the Earth.

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Also, on board the "Union" flaunts its famous phrase "Let's go!" And the numbers "1961-2016". 55 years have passed ...

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At the time of a new expedition to the station is planned for more than 50 scientific experiments. "Soyuz TMA-20M" - the last ship of this type, the next flight will have to go on a spaceship of the new series.

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