“Soyuz” with an international crew launched from the Baikonur – Proceedings

On the Baikonur cosmodrome was launched carrier rocket “Soyuz-FG” with the manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-18M.” After a few minutes of flight, ship cleanly separated from the third stage of the launch vehicle on the calculated orbit, according to Roscosmos.

It went ISS Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, who was appointed commander of the ship, astronaut Aydym Aimbetov from Kazakhstan and a representative of the European Space Agency, the Dane Andreas Mogensen. While for Aimbetova Mogensen and the flight into space – the first.

The flight of manned spacecraft “Soyuz” will take place on a two-day system. Previously, the path to the station took only six hours, but, as explained in the Russian Space Agency, the program changed for security reasons to avoid failures that are possible with rapid docking with the ISS, according to «Interfax ».