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| | | | | | | ESA’s Belgian astronaut on way to Space Station in new Soyuz spacecraft
30 October 2002
| | 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). | |  |  | |
| | | | | | 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.
A crew including Mission Commander Sergei Zalyotin, and Flight Engineer Frank De Winne, will lift off on a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baikonur in Kazakhstan for a 10-day mission. The launch is currently scheduled to take place on 30 October 2002.
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