Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Russian Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft blessed

A Russian Orthodox priest blesses the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft on the launch pad at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The rocket is set to blast off to the International Space Station on December 15, with US astronaut Cady Coleman, Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli and Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratiev on board
A Russian Orthodox priest blesses the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft on the launch pad at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The rocket is set to blast off to the International Space Station on December 15, with US astronaut Cady Coleman, Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli and Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratiev on board.

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