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Piloted spacecraft Soyuz TMA-16 to be launched today

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11:52 30.09.2009
text: "Kazakhstan Today"
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Almaty. September 30. Kazakhstan Today - The piloted spacecraft Soyuz TMA-16 will be launched from cosmodrome Baikonur today, the agency reports citing RosCosmos press service.

The rocket Soyuz -FG with a piloted spaceship Soyuz TMA-16 of the International Space Station program is planned to be launched on September 30.

According to RosCosmos, the members of the basic crew: Maxim Suraev (Russian Space Department), Geoffrey Williams (NASA), Guy Laliberte - the spaceflight participant. The members of the duplicating crew: Alexander Skvortsov (Russian Space Department), Shannon Walker (NASA), Barbara Barrett - the spaceflight participant.

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