ESA’s Belgian astronaut on way to Space Station in new Soyuz spacecraft


Launch Odissea 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).

Launch Odissea 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).

Odissea Mission crew
 
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.



Release date: 9 May 2003