Roscosmos
MILESTONES OF THE DAY... Earlier today, a Russian Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft soared into the snow-filled sky above Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The successful launch—which brought Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Anton Shkaplerov, as well as NASA astronaut Dan Burbank into low-Earth orbit (LEO)—commenced the first manned flight to the International Space Station (ISS) since the shuttle Atlantis flew to the research laboratory for the final time on STS-135 last July. The Soyuz will dock with the ISS this Wednesday.
Also occurring today was a successful undocking and re-docking of China’s Shenzhou-8 spacecraft (whose design is borrowed from the Soyuz vehicle) to the Tiangong-1 module in LEO. The first docking of the two craft took place earlier this month. Shenzhou-8 will stay attached to Tiangong-1 for two more days before Shenzhou re-enters Earth’s atmosphere and lands on November 17.
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