Soyuz TMA-6 crew gives a final farewell before climbing into the lift which will bring the crew of Soyuz TMA-6 to the spacecraft on top of its launcher at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, about 2 h 15 before lift-off for the Eneide Mission to the International Space Station (ISS), on 15 April 2005.
The Eneide Mission, with European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori and the ISS Expedition 11 crew, lifted off today in the Soyuz TMA-6 spacecraft on Flight 10S to the International Space Station (ISS). The launch, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, took place at 06.46 local time 02.46 Central European Summer Time).