Posted on 04/19/2004 11:22:23 AM PDT by klpt
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:04:13 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The spaceship, launched at 0318 GMT Monday from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome, is expected to reach the station in two days.
A Russian cosmonaut and an American astronaut are scheduled spend the next six months on the orbital outpost.
Commander Gennady Padalka, 45, and flight engineer Edward "Mike" Fincke, 37, will replace two colleagues who have lived aboard the complex since October.
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