Russian Soyuz TMA-21 named after Yuri Gagarin
The docking of a soyuz spaceship with the International Space Station is not in itself anything out of the ordinary these days.
However, the soyuz that successfully docked in the early hours of this morning (7 April 02:13UT) is officially named in tribute to Yuri Gagarin and the fiftieth anniversary of the flight of the first man in Space.
And rather fittingly, the soyuz blasted off from the same launch pad, Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan that was used 50 years ago for the historic event on 12th April 1961.
However, the soyuz that successfully docked in the early hours of this morning (7 April 02:13UT) is officially named in tribute to Yuri Gagarin and the fiftieth anniversary of the flight of the first man in Space.
And rather fittingly, the soyuz blasted off from the same launch pad, Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan that was used 50 years ago for the historic event on 12th April 1961.
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