NASA, Russia launch Soyuz rocket to ISS simply weeks after failure

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A Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft lifts off

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The Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft takes off on Monday.


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American, Canadian and Russian astronauts introduced to the International Space Station in a Soyuz rocket Monday early morning, weeks after the exact same design stopped working soon after liftoff

NASA’s Anne McClain, the Canadian Space Agency’s David Saint-Jacques and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko reached orbit minutes after the smooth launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3: 31 a.m. PT.

They’re due to get to the ISS 6 hours after launch, and they’ll board the station less than 2 hours after that.

There, they’ll satisfy the European Space Agency’s Alexander Gerst, NASA’s Serena Au ñón-Chancellor and Roscosmos’ Sergey Prokopyev, the existing team of the ISS who’ll utilize the Soyuz to go back to Earth onDec 20.

Gerst, who tweeted about the launch Monday, might see the launch from the ISS due to the fact that the spaceport station remained in orbit straight over Kazakhstan at the time.

The previous launch– including NASA’s Nick Hague and Russia’s Aleksey Ovchinin– needed to be terminated after the very first phase of the rocket stopped working to separate as prepared The set was required to leave, and had a safe however rough trip back toEarth

Monday’s launch will be followed by a Space X Dragon spacecraft bring freight– consisting of joyful food for the vacations– to the ISS from Kennedy Space Center in Florida onTuesday

First released at 4: 25 a.m. PT.
Updated at 8: 05 a.m. PT: Adds fresh Gerst tweet.

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