Three-nation crew blasts off for space station
A security guard stands in front of the Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft set on its launch pad before the blast off with the International Space Station (ISS) crew of U.S. astronaut Thomas Marshburn, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield at the Baikonur cosmodrome December 19, 2012.
Image by: POOL / REUTERS
Image by: POOL / REUTERS
International Space Station crew member Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield (C) walks before boarding the Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft at the Baikonur cosmodrome December 19, 2012.
Image by: POOL / REUTERS
Image by: POOL / REUTERS
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying a Russian, an American and a Canadian blasted off on Wednesday to the International Space Station (ISS), where the men are to spend half a year in orbit.
The Russian-built Soyuz TMA-07M lifted off on time, at 1212 GMT, from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
On the crew's two-day trip to the ISS, Canadian Chris Hadfield is joined by U.S. astronaut Tom Mashburn and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko.
They will join U.S. astronaut Kevin Ford and Russians Oleg Novitsky and Yevgeny Tarelkin, who have been manning the $100-billion, 15-nation research complex since October.
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