Just a few hours ago, the first astronaut from the United Arab Emirates was launched to the International Space Station by a Russian Soyuz rocket with an American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut.
Now look at the pictures of this spectacular event. They are out-of-this-world:
A giant jellyfish appeared in the sky over Kazakhstan after the launch of a Soyuz Rocket to bring cosmonauts to ISS. Picture via InstagramA Soyuz rocket carrying a Russian commander, a NASA co-pilot and a United Arab Emirates guest cosmonaut blasted off from Kazakhstan Wednesday. Picture via Instagramthe Soyuz rocket roared to life and climbed away at 9:57:43 a.m. EDT (6:57 p.m. local time), the moment Earth’s rotation carried the pad into the plane of the station’s orbit. Picture via InstagramThe launching came one day after the Japanese space agency launched an unpiloted HTV cargo ship toward the station. Picture via InstagramIf all goes well, Skripochka and Meir will monitor a four-orbit rendezvous with the space station, moving in for docking at the aft port of the Russian Zvezda module at 3:45 p.m. Picture via InstagramStanding by to welcome them aboard the space station will be two cosmonauts, three NASA astronauts and an Italian. Picture via InstagramChristina Koch aboard the International Space Station sent down this spectacular view of the Soyuz launch from her vantage point more than 250 miles up. Picture via Twitter
And here a few videos of the launch:
The jet fighter pilot, Almansoori is sponsored by the UAE government. But as with earlier “space tourists,” he will enjoy a relatively short stay in orbit — eight days — before returning to Earth on October 3 with Ovchinin and Hague, who are wrapping up a 202-day mission.
WOW! I would like to live a rocket launch once in my life. Source
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