Soyuz TMA-15 Launch: May 27, 2009

Soyuz Launch: May 27, 2009
Expedition 20
The Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft carrying three additional crew members to the International Space Station lifts off from Baikonur Cosmodrome. "
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html

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[Scrat335]

These rockets are very good. The have the highest launch rate/success if any ever built. American rockets are good too but not used as much.

[gert944]

Goeie vlucht Frank en collega's.

Wij Belgen kunnen fier op je zijn!!

Good flight Frank and colleagues.

We Belgians can be proud of you!!

[DJUFat]

there rockets always seem to work and so well too!

[themainproblem]

This is the coolest looking rocket ever!  Russian spacecraft engineers rock!

[bjornjoseph]

@bombarderoazul thats why the shuttle is being retired.. final launch is friday... going back to the single rocket idea

[ecuellaro]

for what?

Mundane tasks like putting in orbit the Hubble telescope, going back to perform repairs on it, transporting equipment and supplies to the International Space Station, installing solar panels to it..... noting too important... yeah!

[ecuellaro]

El Soyuz NO ES ni por poco tan complejo como los transbordadores espaciales Estadounidenses los cuales estan habilitados para soportar vida en el espacio por periodos muchisimo mas prolongados, tienen mas capacidad de carga y estan habilitados para efectuar experimentos y reparaciones en el espacio como la reciente mision al Hubble la cual no hubiera sido para nada posible con el Soyuz!...

me xi ca ni to!

[cmdrnmartin]

They always had simple elegant solutions. They transport the rocket horizontally to launch pad on rails, raise it there. The arms fall away due to gravity, unlike the US systems which rely on precise timing to swing away, and of course, the old US multi million dollar Space Pen vs the Russian Pencil. Still the US gave us Saturn 5, which the Russians didn't match until the 80s with Energia.

[legionario501]

iam not russian and not american but is not MUCH BETTER the soyuz launch ?

[evgeniy3333]

ЖАБА!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TheHasanJamil]

I luv the way the four arms release once the rocket has enough momentum. Clearly the Russians mastered rocket technology. By the way anybody has any idea how large vostochny cosmodrome would be compared to baikonur