The Soyuz spacecraft launched flawlessly yesterday at 7:12 am EST from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. On board are NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn, Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Chris Hadfield and Russian Cosmonaut Roman Romanenko. They will be rendezvousing and docking with the International Space Station tomorrow morning.
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Heading up to the Space Station
The Soyuz spacecraft launched flawlessly yesterday at 7:12 am EST from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. On board are NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn, Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Chris Hadfield and Russian Cosmonaut Roman Romanenko. They will be rendezvousing and docking with the International Space Station tomorrow morning.