Baikonur (Kazakhstan) (AFP) – A Soyuz spacecraft with three astronauts successfully launched towards the International Space Station on Wednesday, marking the 500th manned launch in space travel history. The trio — including the first Danish citizen ever to fly into space — blasted off in the Soyuz TMA 18M rocket on schedule at 0437 GMT from the same launchpad that Yuri Gagarin used for his historic entry into the cosmos in 1961. “The crew is doing well, everything is in order onboard,” relayed mission control at Baikonur. Veteran cosmonaut Sergei Volkov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos is leading a …read more
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