Frank De Winne, Sergei Zaletin and Yuri Lonchakov going up to the Soyuz capsule to lift off on a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baikonur in Kazakhstan for a 10-day mission.
The fourth taxi flight to the International Space Station carrying a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut and two Russian crew members made a perfect lift-off today (Wednesday, 30 October 2002) from the vast open plains of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, into the rising sun at 08:11 local time (04:11 Central European Time, 03:11 Universal Time).
Frank De Winne, Sergei Zaletin and Yuri Lonchakov going up to the Soyuz capsule to lift off on a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baikonur in Kazakhstan for a 10-day mission.
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