and feed of the
space agency’s satellite signal.
The rocket will be carrying Alexander Kaleri, Michael Foale and Pedro Duque to the International Space Station. Kaleri and Foale will remain for six months as the Expedition Eight crew, while Duque will return to Earth on Oct. 27 with the Expedition Seven crew of Ed Lu and Yuri Malenchenko.
This picture by NASA’s Bill Ingalls shows the Soyuz rocket being lifted into place on the same launch stand that hosted the first launch of a man into orbit, when Yuri Gagarin flew in April 1961.
Crew transfers using the Russian Soyuz spacecraft will continue about every six months until the space shuttle
