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Expedition 9 Soyuz Rollout
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Expedition 9 Soyuz Rollout

NASA / HQ · 2004-04-16 · photograph (digital archive)

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The rollout locomotive prepares to back away from the launch pad leaving the Soyuz TMA-4 capsule and its booster rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Saturday, April 17, 2004, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan in preparation for the launch of the Expedition 9 crew and a European researcher to the International Space Station on April 19. The Soyuz vehicle is transported to the launch pad horizontally on a railcar from its processing hangar in a process that takes about 2.5 hours to complete.

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Credit lineExpedition 9 Soyuz Rollout. NASA/HQ, 2004-04-16. Public domain. ID: 20040417_exp9_27.

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