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Soyuz rocket launches Soyuz TMA-4 spacecraft (April 19, 2004)
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The Soyuz TMA-4 vehicle blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday, April 19, 2004, carrying cosmonaut Gennady I. Padalka, Russia’s Federal Space Agency Expedition 9 mission commander; astronaut Edward M. (Mike) Fincke, NASA International Space Station (ISS) science officer and flight engineer; and ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers of the Netherlands to the ISS. Padalka and Fincke will spend six months on the ISS, replacing the Expedition 8 crew, which has been aboard the Station since October 20, 2003. Kuipers, who is flying under a commercial contract between ESA and Russia’s Federal Space Agency, will return to Earth with the Expedition 8 crew on April 30, 2004.
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http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-9/html/jsc2004e19841.html
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Date |
April 19, 2004
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Author |
NASA/Bill Ingalls
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Permission |
PD-USGov-NASA
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