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Expedition 31 Through the Lens

Expedition 31 Crew Prepares For Launch

There’s something special about this picture of last night’s Soyuz launch from Baikonur. Maybe it’s the “meta” of watching the video camera watching the launch; maybe it’s the lovely bokeh formed by the launch tower lights. (I believe that it’s much better to look at the launch of any rocket, not through a viewfinder… but it’s a cool photo.)

The Soyuz rocket is seen in the monitor of a video camera moments before Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka and flight engineers Joseph Acaba and Sergei Revin arrived to board the rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for their flight to join their crew mates already aboard the International Space Station. The craft successfully launched at 11:01 p.m. EDT, Monday, May 14, 2012.

The trio will dock to the station’s Poisk Mini-Research Module at 12:38 a.m. Thursday, bringing Expedition 31 to its full six-member complement.

Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

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May 15, 2012
Filed Under: News & Happenings, Picspam
Tagged With: baikonur, expedition 31, iss, launches, soyuz

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Celebrating the dreams and realities of spaceflight in the past, present, and retro-future. Blog by Danielle Rose, space cadet and STS-133 NASA Tweetup Attendee.

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