What a busy weekend for space geographic expedition . There were three successful lift offs around the world , including two Soyuz launch from opposite sides of the solid ground :
Friday , 19:42 GMT ( 3:42 p.m. EDT ): Liftoff of the Soyuz TMA-16 M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan ( pictured above and below ) , with Gennady Padalka , Mikhail Kornienko and Scott Kelly on board , headedto the International Space Stationfor a yr - long mission .
exposure : Bill Ingalls / NASA
Friday , 21:46 GMT ( 5:46 p.m. EDT ): Liftoff of another Soyuz skyrocket from Kourou , French Guyana , loaded with two planet for the European Space Agency ‘s Galileo piloting plan .
Photo : ESA / CNES / ARIANESPACE - Service Optique CSG , S. Martin
Saturday 11:49 GMT ( 7:49 a.m. EDT ): Launch of the Indian Space Research Organisation ’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV - C27 / IRNSS-1D , with the 4th satellite of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System in its payload , from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on India ’s east coast .
Photo : ISRO
Top photograph : medium photograph the Soyuz TMA-16 M ballistic capsule as it launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 43 NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly , Russian Cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko , and Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency ( Roscosmos ) onboard ( Bill Ingalls / NASA )
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