Tag: Year In Space

  • Soyuz MS-18 launch marks 60 years of human spaceflight

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    The Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, carrying three new members for Expeditions 64 and 65, launched to the International Space Station at 07:42 UTC, which is 03:42 EDT or 12:42 local time at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on Friday, April 9.  The launch came three days before the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s groundbreaking orbital flight when…