Moscow: Despite Friday’s biggest terrorist attack on a Moscow concert hall in two decades, Russia has surprised the whole world by taking a big leap in space today. A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying three astronauts left for the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday. Two days before this, its launch was postponed at the last minute. Despite a major terrorist attack in the country, by carrying out this mission, Russia has given a message to the world that its courage has not wavered.
Anyway, in his address to the nation on Saturday, President Putin has announced a day of national mourning and said that all those who were involved in the attack and those who were directing them will not be spared at all. Despite facing terrorist attacks, Russia has done a great act of courage by launching its space mission. The spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Tracy Dyson, Oleg Novitsky of Russia and Marina Vasilievskaya of Belarus lifted off from the Russian-leased Baikonur launch center in Kazakhstan. It was scheduled to launch Thursday, but an automated safety system aborted it about 20 seconds before the scheduled takeoff.
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The head of the Russian space agency, Yuri Borisov, said Thursday’s launch could not take place due to a lack of voltage in the power source. The space capsule attached to the rocket separated and went into orbit eight minutes after launch. It then began a two-day, 34-orbit journey to the space station. If the launch had occurred as scheduled on Thursday, the trip would have been much shorter and only two orbits would have been required. Now it is expected to connect with the ISS at 3:10 pm international time on Monday.
The three astronauts are to join the station’s crew, which also includes NASA astronauts Loral O’Hara, Matthew Dominick, Mike Barrett and Janet Epps, as well as Russians Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and Alexander Grebenkin. Novitsky, Vasilevskaya and O’Hara are scheduled to return to Earth on April 6. (AP)
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