Crew Launches From Birthplace of Human Spaceflight

One week shy of the 50th anniversary of the first human spaceflight, NASA astronaut Ron Garan and Russian cosmonauts Andrey Borisenko and Alexander Samokutyaev launched to the International Space Station at 6:18 p.m. EDT Monday (4:18 a.m. local time, April 5) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Link: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/apr/HQ_11-096_Soyuz_26.html

Time: 6. Apr. 2011

Feed: NASA Breaking News

Topics: from, human, spaceflight