Liftoff for the next International Space Station (@ISS) crew! In this long exposure photograph, the Soyuz spacecraft is seen launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with crew members NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, and European astronaut Thomas Pesquet from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday. Whitson, Novitskiy, and Pesquet will spend approximately six months on the orbital complex.
Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
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