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Russia launches manned spacecraft to ISS

Published: 30/09/2009 05:00

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A Russian spaceship with two astronauts and one space tourist aboard blasted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Wednesday.

The Russian Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft carrying the crew of Canadian billionaire Guy Laliberte , Russian cosmonaut Maxim Surayev and U.S. astronaut Jeffrey Williams blasts off from Baikonur cosmodrome September 30, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

Local TV showed that a Soyuz-FG rocket carrying the Soyuz TMA-16 spaceship lifted off at 11:15 Moscow time (0715 GMT), with the 21st ISS crew Russian and U.S. astronauts Maxim Surayev and Jeffrey Williams on board.

The Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft will separate from the Soyuz-FG carrier rocket nine minutes after takeoff, and start its two-day autonomous flight before docking with the ISS at 12:37 Moscow time (0837 GMT) on Oct. 2.

Canadian billionaire Guy Laliberte, founder and CEO of the world-renowned acrobatic group Cirque du Soleil, joined the mission as world’s seventh space tourist.

It is reported that Laliberte has spent around 50 million U.S. dollars for the trip, 15 million dollars more than his predecessor.

Before putting on their spacesuits prior to the blastoff on Wednesday, the two astronauts and the space tourist were bathed in alcohol.

“Spirits are high, and we slept like children,” the RIA Novosti news agency quoted Surayev as saying.

The 21st ISS crew will complete several tasks at the station in six months, including the unloading of three Russian Progress space freighters and a spacewalk to install a Russian MIM-2 scientific module.

They will also conduct some 50 scientific experiments and work with crews of three U.S. space shuttles.

Laliberte will spend 12 days and nights at the space station, before returning to earth together with the 19th mission, Russian and U.S. astronauts Gennady Padalka and Michael Barratt, who have been at the orbital station since March, on board the Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft.

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