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Baikonur Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome bound for a docking to the International Space Station.
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Baikonur, Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson, Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko and Malaysian Spaceflight Participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at sunset Oct. 10, 2007, in their Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft bound for a docking to the International Space Station on Oct. 12. Whitson and Malenchenko will spend six months on the station while Shukor will return to Earth Oct. 21 with two of the Expedition 15 crewmembers currently on the complex. Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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- Title: Baikonur Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome bound for a docking to the International Space Station.
- Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Owner: KSC
- Album: cbabir
- About Title: To help you find images you’re searching for, previously untitled images have been labelled automatically based on their description
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