From left: Russian Cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, NASA Astronaut Timothy Creamer and Japanese Astronaut Soichi Noguchi before lifting off inside their Soyuz-TMA-17 spacecraft atop a Soyuz-FG rocket from the Baikonur space center. The three men will work aboard the International Space Station.
- Package: Soyuz-FG rocket. Launch. Baikonur.
- Categories: Science & Technology
- Location: Baikonur, Kazakhstan
- Event date: 20.12.2009
- Date published: 21.12.2009
- Author: Oleg Urusov
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 5436x3543px, 3.4Mb