Russian spacecraft carrying international crew launched successfully
Posted on: Saturday, 18 October 2003, 06:00 CDT
Excerpt from report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS
Baykonur (Kazakhstan), 18 October: The Soyuz TMA-3 spacecraft carrying an international space crew was successfully launched from Baykonur cosmodrome at 0938 local time [0538 gmt] today.
The launch was carried out by Rosaviakosmos together with Russian Space Troops combat crews.
Russia's Aleksandr Kaleri and Michael Foale of NASA will spend 200 days in space. Pedro Duque of the European Space Agency will come back in 10 days together with Yuriy Malenchenko and Edward Lu currently working in space. [Passage omitted]
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