Wednesday, March 27, 2013

The Soyuz TMA-08M



The Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft being transported to its launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhastan on Tuesday. The Soyuz will carry US astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin to the International Space Station on March 29. — Reuters


The International Space Station is a habitable artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. It follows the Salyut, Almaz, Skylab and Mir stations as the ninth space station to be inhabited.Expedition 35 will carry the astronauts for a five and half month stay aboard the  International Space Station.



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