In the dark night of the Kazakh steppes, the Soyuz TMA-15M left the ground at Baikonur 9:01 p.m. GMT (10:01 p.m. in Paris) towards the International Space Station (ISS), where it will dock at 3:50 GMT, said Roskosmos.
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“The takeoff occurred normally and crew well “, said NASA, the US space agency, while broadcast live images showed American Terry Virts up his thumb and smile at the camera.
The three Soyuz passengers will live aboard the ISS until mid-May 2015. They will be joining three other astronauts already there, the American Barry Wilmore and Russians Alexander Samokoutiaïev and Elena Serova, who themselves will return in March on Earth.
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