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Soyuz TMA-17M Launch. / July 23, 2015 /

On 23 July at 00:02:44 a.m. Moscow Time, the Soyuz FG rocket with the Soyuz TMA-17M manned spacecraft was successfully launched by the ROSCOSMOS’s launching teams from the launching complex, Pad 1 (Gagarin’s Start).
After 528 seconds of flight, Soyuz TMA-17M separated from the third stage of the carrier rocket as planned in the designed orbit. The spacecraft crew Commander Oleg KONONENKO (ROSCOSMOS), Flight Engineers Kimiya YUI (JAXA) and Kjell LINDGREN (NASA) feel well.

Soyuz TMA-17M is scheduled to dock with the ISS Russian Segment Rassvet mini-research module (MIM1) at 05:46 a.m. Moscow Time.

ROSCOSMOS Press Service

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