Soyuz TMA-2 spaceship being launched from the Baikonur space center toward the Internaitonal Space Station. The seventh long-term Russian-US expedition: commander Yury Malenchenko and flight engineer Edward Lu--are to replace the station dwellers Nikolai Budarin (Russia), Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox (USA) and keep the ISS operational for the next six months.
- Categories: Science & Technology
- Location: Baikonur, Kazakhstan
- Event date: 27.04.2003
- Date published: 01.10.2007
- Author: Vladimir Vyatkin
- Source: Sputnik
- Credit: Sputnik
- Original: И03-3088, 35 mm film
- Media: JPEG, 2362x3648px, 4Mb