It's
launch day! The gantry arms begin to close around the Soyuz TMA-12M
spacecraft to secure the rocket at the launch pad on Sunday, March 23,
2014, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz
rocket is scheduled for 5:17 p.m. EDT, March 25, and will send
Expedition 39 Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal
Space Agency, Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Steven Swanson of NASA, and
Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos on a six-month mission aboard
the International Space Station.
Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky
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