Roskosmos announced the successful launch of the manned transport spacecraft (WPK) “Soyuz MS-08” riding on the rocket carrier “Soyuz-FG”. From The Twitter Of The Russian Space Agency:
“20.53.13→ the third stage separated. The spacecraft “Soyuz MS-08″ successfully launched into orbit an artificial satellite of the Earth. @OlegMKS, @Astro_Feustel and @astro_ricky on the way to the ISS! Docking — March 23”.
“Aboard TPK “Soyuz MS-08″ the members of the expedition MKS-55/56 – commander, ROSCOSMOS cosmonaut Oleg ARTEMYEV, flight engineers, NASA astronauts Andrew FEUSTEL (commander of ISS-56) and Richard ARNOLD”, — reported in the press release of Roscosmos.
“All phases of flight of the carrier rocket “Soyuz-FG” and went normally after 8 minutes, 48 seconds after the start in accordance with the flight program of the WPK “Soyuz MS-08″ separated from the third stage PH and went into orbit an artificial satellite of the Earth. Specialists of the Main operational control team Russian segment of the ISS (RS ISS, LOCT) at the mission control Center (MCC) began to control the flight of the WPK”.
The planned docking of the WPK is scheduled for March 23, 22:41 Moscow time. “Soyuz MS-08” need to get closer to the station and dock to the research module “Search” in automatic mode. It was the 135th flight of a manned Soyuz spacecraft, whose first flight took place in 1967.
#СоюзМС08: 20.53.13→ the third stage separated. The spacecraft “Soyuz MS-08” successfully launched into orbit an artificial satellite of the Earth. @OlegMKS, @Astro_Feustel and @astro_ricky on the way to the ISS! Docking — March 23.
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Third stage cut-off and separation of the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft pic.twitter.com/j6oejVhyDF— ROSCOSMOS (@roscosmos) March 21, 2018
The launch was without incident. How about this, Elon Musk?
“Soyuz MS-08” with the astronauts successfully went into space
Ilya Hel