Expedition 18 Launch Day. NASA public domain image colelction.
Summary
Expedition 18 Flight Engineer Yuri V. Lonchakov pumps his fists as he and fellow crew members Expedition 18 Commander Michael Fincke and American spaceflight participant Richard Garriott depart the Cosmonaut hotel for the bus ride to building 254 where the crew will don their spacesuits, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The three crew members are scheduled to dock with the International Space Station on Oct. 14. Fincke and Lonchakov will spend six months on the station, while Garriott will return to Earth Oct. 24 with two of the Expedition 17 crew members currently on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov)
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baikonur
expedition 18
expedition 18 preflight
yuri lonchakov
baikonur cosmodrome
kazakhstan
roscosmos russian federal space agency
hq
nasa victor zelentsov
russian space program
expedition
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Date
11/10/2008
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