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European astronaut Claudie Haigneré heads for the International Space Station
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Launch of Andomède mission from Baikonur
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21 October 2001
ESA PR 58-2001. A Soyuz launcher carrying Claudie Haigneré, the first European woman astronaut selected for an ISS mission, and her fellow crew members lifted off successfully today, Sunday 21 October, at 10:59 CEST (08:59 GMT), from Baïkonur, Kazakhstan. Their assignment: the "Andromède" mission.
Claudie Haigneré, a European Space Agency astronaut from France, and her fellow crew members Commander Victor Afanassiev and Flight Engineer Konstantin Kozeev, are due to dock with the Space Station this Tuesday at 12:43 CEST (10:43 GMT). The hatch between the craft and the Space Station will be opened about 90 minutes later.
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Transfer of Soyuz to launch pad
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The crew members of Andromède, a mission initiated by the French Ministry of Research and led by the French Space Agency CNES, will then start work alongside the International Space Station resident crew - Station commander Frank Culbertson, Soyuz commander Vladimir Dezhurov and flight engineer Mikhail Tyurin - who have been on board since mid-August this year.
More information - including live webstreaming of mission highlights, daily reports, Claudie's training diary and biography- - can be found on a dedicated webpage at http://www.esa.int/claudie. There you can also put your questions to ESA's astronauts in the discussion forum.
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Related articles
| | • | Claudie's Training Diary 5: ready to go! (http://www.esa.int/esaHS/ESAQWKZK0TC_index_0.html) | | | • | First European woman heads for International Space Station (http://www.esa.int/esaHS/ESA4ELJUWSC_index_0.html) | |
Related links
| | • | Claudie in space website (http://www.esa.int/claudie) | | | • | Launch clip and videos (http://esa.capcave.nl/esa/andromede/info.html) | | | • | Astronauts (http://www.esa.int/esaHS/astronauts.html) | | | • | Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) (http://www.cnes.fr/html/_455_.php) | | | • | More on Soyuz (http://www.russianspaceweb.com/soyuz.html) | | | • | ESA's ISS pages (http://www.esa.int/esaHS/iss.html) | | | • | ISS (NASA pages) (http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/index.html) | |
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