R-7 Soyuz rocket exhaust plume at altitude
A bit of missile history - a album with photos of the guidance system of the Soviet R-1 rocket (the Soviet copy of V-2) from 1950 … The image below shows the system in the instrument compartment (h/t NK) cc: @ICBMHistory
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Expedition 48 Soyuz
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LIFTOFF!
On July 7, three crew members launched from Earth; headed to their new home on the International Space Station.
Crewmembers Kate Rubins of NASA, Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will spend approximately four months on the orbital complex, returning to Earth in October.
Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
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Soyuz is raised to vertical at the launch zone European Space Agency, flickr.com
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Sunday (June 16) marks the 50th anniversary of Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s landmark 1963 flight, which launched her into history as the first woman to fly to space — only two years after Yuri Gagarin performed the first spaceflight ever in 1961. Tereshkova circled the Earth 48 times during her time as the pilot onboard the Vostok 6 spacecraft.
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Credit: Karl Tate, SPACE.com
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Soyuz TMA-05M set for Launch
The Soyuz TMA-05M crew consisting of Sunita (Suni) Williams, Yuri Malenchenko and Aki Hoshide is set to launch at 8:40 a.m. Kazakhstan time (10:40 p.m. EDT/4:40 a.m. CEST). The launch will be covered live by NASA TV from 9:30 p.m. EDT tonight.
The launch today (or tomorrow, depending on where you are) coincides with the the launch of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project 37 years ago.
Godspeed to the crew, may they safely reach their home in the sky.
Source: nasa.gov