Russia to Launch Space Crew From Kazakh Base 14 October
Posted on: Wednesday, 29 September 2004, 06:00 CDT
Text of report in English by Russian news agency Interfax-AVN web site
Baykonur, 29 September: The launch of the Soyuz TMA spacecraft carrying Expedition 10 to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Baykonur cosmodrome is scheduled to take place at 0907 a.m. Moscow time (0507 gmt) on 14 October, a source in the cosmodrome told Interfax on Wednesday [29 September].
Vyacheslav Davidenko, a spokesman for Roskosmos, told Interfax earlier that the launch had initially been scheduled for 0817 a.m. Moscow time (0417 gmt) on 11 October and was rescheduled for technical reasons.
The spacecraft will take Russian astronaut Salizhan Sharipov, NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao and Russian Space Forces astronaut Yuriy Shargin to the ISS.
Experts with the Samara-based enterprise Progress on Tuesday assembled the first and second stages of the Soyuz-FG booster, which will be used in the launch, the Baikonur federal space centre told Interfax. The booster is currently being prepared for pneumatic tests, Interfax was told.
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