Start "Soyuz TMA-16M" spacecraft
• Start the spacecraft "Soyuz TMA-16M"
In the evening on March 27 from the Baikonur cosmodrome spacecraft was successfully launched "Soyuz TMA-16M". The crew will spend the International Space Station 49 experiments.
Beautiful photos from the start.
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On the orbit flew astronauts Roscosmos Gennady Padalka (center) and Mikhail Kornienko (right), as well as NASA astronaut Scott Kelly (left). Baikonur, March 21, 2015.
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Carrier rocket "Soyuz-FG" and a spaceship "Soyuz TMA-16M" in the assembly and test complex Baikonur, March 16, 2015.
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Carrier rocket "Soyuz-FG" and a spaceship "Soyuz TMA-16M" in the assembly and test facility at Baikonur on 16 March 2015 is already installed on the railway platform for the transport to the launch pad.
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The rocket was taken out of the assembly and test facility and transported to the launch pad in the Kazakh steppe on a special train with a speed of 5 km / h. Baikonur, March 25, 2015.
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The design consists of a carrier rocket "Soyuz-FG" and the spaceship "Soyuz TMA-13M". The main purpose of the launch vehicles - launching spacecraft "Soyuz-TMA" to the ISS.
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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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The site number 1 Baikonur Cosmodrome - is the famous "Gagarin" launch complex. It was built in 1957. World fame brought the launch complex manned launch April 12, 1961, when with him on a rocket "Vostok" was launched Yuri Gagarin. Baikonur, March 25, 2015.
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In total, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome platform 1 it took about five hundred missile launches.
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The next step - the rise of the rocket in a vertical position at the launch pad at Baikonur, March 25, 2015.
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By the way, this site met launches the world's first artificial satellite, the first interplanetary probes to the Moon, Venus and Mars.
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Mandatory event in Baikonur - the consecration of the rocket, March 16, 2015.
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And the photographer ...
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And the commander of the search and rescue part of the complex "Baikonur" Sergei Semchenko. Get! Baikonur, March 26, 2015.
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Mikhail Kornienko and Scott Kelly aboard the ISS will have to work for a year, their planned return to Earth March 3, 2016. Gennady Padalka is to return to Earth before - as a result of a six-month flight, he will record for total time spent in space (the total duration of 878 days!)
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Let's go! Start the spacecraft "Soyuz TMA-16M", Baikonur, 27 March 2015.
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During the launch of a rocket szhivaetsya about 180 tons of fuel per minute.
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Photographers.
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