While the Soyuz rocket has already flown in unmanned condition several times since its failure to put the Soyuz MS-10 crew into orbit earlier this year (the crew escaped safely), it had yet to fly humans since. This has now changed. A Soyuz FG successfully launched a crew of three – Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Anne McClain of NASA, and Flight Engineer David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) – into low Earth orbit their Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft on 3 December 2018. The lift off at 1131 GMT was from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan. After a six hour, four orbit transit, the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft docked with the International Space Station’s Poisk module at 1733 GMT on the same day and the crew transferred to join their three other colleagues on the station.
Crew launches to ISS via Soyuz FG rockets resume
by David Todd | Dec 4, 2018 | International Space Station, Launches, NASA, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz, space station
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