The 100th spacecraft was launched. Along with three crew, aircraft with a Soyuz TMA-19 slide toward the International Space Station (ISS).
Three crew members who were in them are from the United States astronaut Douglas Wheelock and Shannon Walker and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin.
Rocket with a project value of U.S. $ 100 billion was set off from Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan. For the second time, Fyodor Yurchikhin a former space station commander believed to ride the rocket.
As for Douglas Wheelock, never became an astronaut and space shuttle astronaut Shannon Walker is the first home in Houston. “I am delighted and a little worried,” Walker said before flying into space.
Walker’s husband who was also an astronaut named Andy Thomas let his wife participate in these space missions. “I’m happy, excited, nervous and a little jealous,” said Thomas.
Among the personal items that brought by Walker into space is a clock that was used worn by Amelia Earhart, first woman pilot of the United States.