Expedition 16 is Off to the International Space Station
October 10, 2007 | info | Comments 0
The next inhabitants of the International Space Station, Expedition 16, were blasted into orbit today aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket. On board are Malaysia’s first astronaut, Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, veteran cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, and US commander Peggy Whitson – the first woman to ever command the station.
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