A photo from open sources At Baikonur – the largest in the world cosmodrome located on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan, – preparation for the launch of the Soyuz spacecraft is nearing completion. The ceremonial start will take place tomorrow – September 2, 2015. For the first time, citizens of Kazakhstan and Denmark.
Soyuz-FG launch vehicle and Soyuz TMA-18m comic ship already brought to the launch pad. The rocket will be launched from “Gagarin launch”, as cosmonauts call it, – for him the flight will be anniversary. The upcoming launch of the Union is reportedly will be five hundredth for this site. In honor of him on the launch frame Installation marked white star.
The ship will send to the International Space Station the main crew represented by Sergey Volkov (Russian Federation), Aydin Aimbetova (Republic of Kazakhstan) and Andreas Mogensen, who is a citizen of Denmark and an employee of the European Outer Space an agency established by the European Union. Kazakhstani and Dane will return to earth on the twelfth of September, having been in orbit for only eight days. At the same time, the Russian astronaut will have to join long expedition to the ISS.
As mentioned above, for Aydin Aimbetov and Andreas Mogensen this flight will be the first. In addition, they will be the first Kazakh and Danish astronauts who traveled outside of our planet.
The Soyuz-FG launch vehicle was first used on the 20th May 2001 Since then, more than fifty have been committed on it. starts, and all of them were successful.
Kazakhstan ISS Rocket
