The Soyuz MS-08 rocket is seen on the launch pad hours before launch, Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 55 Soyuz Commander Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos and flight engineers Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold of NASA launched at 1:44 p.m. Eastern time (11:44 p.m. Baikonur time) to begin a five month mission to the International Space Station.
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q71582571" class="extiw" title="d:Q71582571"><span title="American photographer">Joel Kowsky</span></a>
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Taken on 21 March 2018
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