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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Expedition 30 Soyuz Rolls to the Pad


The Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft is rolled out by train on its way to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Monday, December 19, 2011. The launch of the Soyuz spacecraft with Expedition 30 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of Russia, NASA Flight Engineer Don Pettit and European Space Agency astronaut and Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers is scheduled for 8:16 a.m. EST on Wednesday, December 21.

Photo credit: NASA/Carla Cioffi

Update: The Expedition 30 spacecraft launched successfully; a video of the launch can be found here.

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