/TASS/. Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Roscosmos and NASA's Kathleen Rubins launched from the Russian-operated Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 0545 GMT Wednesday. Soyuz launch site Soyuz launch site. ISS crew members walk to depart to the launchpad, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The launch marked the second crewed flight of the Soyuz 2.1a booster, which officially took over from the veteran Soyuz-FG with the launch of Soyuz MS-16 in April 2020. 14 OCTOBER 2020 . "We don't get to choose our launch date or what occurs on station but certainly I feel incredibly lucky to be on station when... these events are happening," said the American astronaut. Oct 23. Later on, the client and Airianspace company decided to replace the booster and postpone the launch. Rogozin on Monday said he did not envisage Moscow participating "on a large scale" in a NASA-led Moon-orbiting station known as The Gateway. Some publications may contain information not suitable for users under 16 years of age. Starlink (Wikipedia) On launch day, head back here to watch the live stream! Recent Launches OCT 18 . A Soyuz rocket lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome April 9 carrying the Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft, whose three-person crew will arrive at the International Space Station six hours after launch. SLC-40, Cape Canaveral AFS Florida, United States. A three-person crew successfully reached the International Space Station on Wednesday aboard a Russian rocket after the fastest ever journey from Earth of just over three hours. 88F. Stringent precautions, including tighter quarantine and mask-wearing before launch, have been taken due to the coronavirus pandemic but the astronauts and space officials rejected any concerns about a risk of infection on the ISS. Before May 30, when US astronauts Robert Behnken and Doug Hurley arrived at the ISS courtesy of cars to rockets tycoon Elon Musk, Russia and Baikonur had enjoyed a lucrative monopoly on crewed missions to the ISS. © ScienceAlert Pty Ltd. All rights reserved. Starlink-14. (Handout/Russian Space Agency Roscosmos/AFP). Geological and topographic surveys began at the site selected for Soyuz in 2003. SpaceX. The launch from Kourou has been scheduled for early November upon a request from a commercial partner, Roscosmos said MOSCOW, September 22. "We have a very strict quarantine, almost from March by my perception," said Rubins, a microbiologist who researched the deadly Ebola virus before she began training as an astronaut. 03:31 PM . CHRISTOPHER RICKLETON, AFP . A UAE’s Falcon Eye 2 satellite was originally planned to be launched on March 6. © TASS, Russian news agency (The Mass Media Registration Certificate No. {{newsPoint.date * 1000 | date : 'HH:mm'}} {{newsPoint.mark}}, The launch from Kourou has been scheduled for early November upon a request from a commercial partner, Roscosmos said, All in all, ten such centers on six priority areas will receive support totally worth 2.39 bln rubles, The Kremlin spokesman has commented on US presidential candidate Joe Biden’s statement that Russia was the biggest threat to the US at the moment, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that for Russians Hagia Sophia is particularly valuable from the spiritual point of view, According to Moscow, involvement of personnel and dual-use aviation of non-nuclear NATO countries, such as Germany, in drilling scenarios of the use of nuclear weapons is a flagrant violation of the Nonproliferation Treaty, The Soyuz MS-16 spaceship’s reentry vehicle with Roscosmos 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