Expedition 20 Lifts Off

Expedition 20 Lifts Off
Flight Engineers Roman Romanenko, Frank De Winne and Robert Thirsk of the 20th International Space Station crew launched in their Soyuz TMA-15 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 6:34 a.m. EDT Wednesday, May 27, 2009, to begin a six-month stay in space.
Expedition 20 will mark the start of six-person crew operations aboard the International Space Station. All five of the international partner agencies--NASA, the Russian Federal Space Agency, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency--will be represented on orbit for the first time.
Image Credit: ESA/CSA/NASA/Stephane Corvaja
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1374.html
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