November 8, 2013

Image: Arcing towards orbit

Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

In this two-minute exposure, the Soyuz TMA-11M rocket heads from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan towards orbit with Expedition 38 Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA and Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency onboard.

The trio launched Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013 (Nov. 6 in the U.S.), bound for a docking at the International Space Station about six hours later.Tyurin, Mastracchio and Wakata will spend the next six months aboard the orbiting laboratory.

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Image: Arcing towards orbit

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