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Soyuz-FG carrier rocket with Soyuz TMA-10M manned spaceship launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. / September 27, 2013 /

On 26 September at 00:58:50 Moscow Time the Soyuz-FG booster with the Soyuz TMA-10M manned spaceship was successfully launched from the Baikonur’s Gagarinsky Start.
At 01:07 Moscow Time, the Soyuz TMA-10M separated from booster’s third stage in the Earth satellite orbit. The Expedition 37/38 crew consisting of Commander Oleg Kotov (ROSCOSMOS), Flight Engineers Sergei Ryazansky (ROSCOSMOS) and Michael Hopkins (NASA) is on board the Soyuz TMA-10M. The crew call sign is Pulsar. The Soyuz TMA-10A rendezvous and docking with the International Space Station will be through the spaceship propulsion system.
To launch of and dock the Soyuz TMA-10A with ISS will be performed by the four-orbit scheme that has been first used for the Soyuz TMA-08M takeoff on 29 March 2013.
The scheduled time of the Soyuz TMA-10A docking with ISS is 06:48 Moscow Time on 26 September.

Press service of ROSCOSMOS

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