BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan: A Soyuz spacecraft with three astronauts on board, including the first Dane to fly into space, blasted off towards the International Space Station on Wednesday.
The trio launched on schedule at 0437 GMT (12.37pm Malaysia) from the same launchpad in Kazakhstan that Yuri Gagarin used for his historic entry into the cosmos in 1961.
“The crew is doing well, everything is in order onboard,” relayed mission control.
Veteran cosmonaut Sergei Volkov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos is leading a team that also includes first-time flyers Aidyn Aimbetov from Kazakhstan’s space agency and Denmark’s Andreas Mogensen of the European Space …read more
Source: theSun
