#Kazakhstan – Russian-US crew blast off for ISS from Kazakhstan by Vasily Maximov #AFP #Soyuz pic.twitter.com/NKAUzOEBl0
— AFP Photo (@AFPphoto) March 26, 2014
This is how the launch pad looked like seconds after yesterday’s Soyuz launch at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Original caption for this great shot:
Russian Soyuz-FG rocket with the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft and a crew of US astronaut Steven Swanson, Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev aboard, blasts off from a launch pad at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, early on March 26, 2014. A crew of two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut blasted off today from Kazakhstan on a Russian Soyuz rocket for the International Space Station, with US-Russia space cooperation pressing on despite the diplomatic standoff over Ukraine. AFP PHOTO / VASILY MAXIMOV
You can check the full image over at AFP’s tumblr.
