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New Launch: 2009 March 26, 1149 UTC
Site: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Launcher: Soyuz-FG
International Designator(s): 2009-015A
SCC Name Owner
34669 SOYUZ-TMA 14 CIS
"As the shuttle Discovery orbited more than 70 miles [110 km] in front of
the international space station, a Russian Soyuz rocket took off today
from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying the station's next
commander, a NASA doctor and a wealthy space tourist.
"With Expedition 19 commander Gennady Padalka and flight
engineer-physician Michael Barratt at the controls, the Soyuz TMA-14
spacecraft blasted off from site 254—Yuri Gagarin's launch pad—at 7:49:18
a.m. EDT. Joining them for the two-day trip to the station was Charles
Simonyi, a Hungarian-born U.S. software developer making his second
multi-million-dollar visit to the lab complex."
"Padalka and Barratt will join Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata aboard the
station and replace Expedition 18 commander Mike Fincke and flight
engineer Yury Lonchakov, who are in the final days of a
five-and-a-half-month tour of duty. Fincke, Lonchakov and Simonyi will
return to Earth April 7 aboard the Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft that carried
the outgoing station fliers into orbit last October.
"Wakata, Japan's first long-duration station crew member, hitched a ride
to the outpost aboard Discovery. He replaced outgoing flight engineer
Sandra Magnus, who is returning to Earth aboard the shuttle after a
four-month stay in space.
"Today's launching marks a milestone for NASA and the Russian space
agency, the first of two flights intended to boost the station's crew size
from three to six. In late May, another Soyuz is scheduled for launch to
carry three more crew members to the lab: cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, a
second-generation cosmonaut, European Space Agency astronaut Frank De
Winne of Belgium and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk, a
shuttle veteran."
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