{"id":13059,"date":"2019-07-22T22:21:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T14:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-soyuz-crew-blasts-off-from-baikonur-cosmodrome\/"},"modified":"2019-07-22T22:21:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T14:21:15","slug":"photos-soyuz-crew-blasts-off-from-baikonur-cosmodrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-soyuz-crew-blasts-off-from-baikonur-cosmodrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Soyuz crew blasts off from Baikonur Cosmodrome"},"content":{"rendered":"

A three-man crew from Russia, the United States and Italy climbed inside a Soyuz spacecraft and rocketed into orbit Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on course for the International Space Station.<\/p>\n

The Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft lifted off from Baikonur at 1628:20 GMT (12:28:20 p.m. EDT) Saturday with veteran Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov in the commander\u2019s seat, flanked by Italian-born European Space Agency flight engineer Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan.<\/p>\n

Liftoff occurred at 9:28 p.m. local time Saturday at Baikonur.<\/p>\n

The Soyuz rocket arced toward the northeast with more than 900,000 pounds of thrust from its four strap-on boosters and core stage, all consuming a mixture of kerosene and liquid oxygen propellants. The Soyuz launcher deployed the Soyuz MS-13 crew ferry craft in orbit less than nine minutes after liftoff, setting the stage for a series of rendezvous maneuvers culminating in an automated radar-guided link-up with the space station at 2248 GMT (6:48 p.m. EDT) Saturday.<\/p>\n

Read our full story for details on the mission.<\/p>\n

The photos below show the Soyuz crew preparing for launch, arriving at the launch pad, and blasting off to begin their mission to the space station.<\/p>\n

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