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Videos: Soyuz TMA-19M Final Launch Preparations

Russian Aviaton » Monday December 14, 2015 11:03 MSK

Soyuz TMA-19M is a Soyuz spaceflight planned for December 2015. It will transport three members of the Expedition 46 crew to the International Space Station. TMA-19M will be the 128th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft; the first having occurred in 1967. The crew will consist of a Russian commander accompanied by American and British astronauts.

A rocket powering a Soyuz spacecraft has been rolled out and set up on a launch pad in Baikonur. Space veterans, Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos and Timothy L. Kopra of NASA, will be joined by ESA astronaut Tim Peak, who will become the first Briton to go to space since 1991.