<b>The <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Soyuz_MS-09" title="Category:Soyuz MS-09">Soyuz MS-09 rocket</a> is launched</b> with <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:ISS_Expedition_56" title="Category:ISS Expedition 56">Expedition 56</a> Soyuz Commander <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sergey_Prokopyev_(cosmonaut)" title="Category:Sergey Prokopyev (cosmonaut)">Sergey Prokopyev</a> of Roscosmos, flight engineer <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Serena_M._Aunon" title="Category:Serena M. Aunon">Serena Auñón-Chancellor</a> of NASA, and flight engineer <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Alexander_Gerst" title="Category:Alexander Gerst">Alexander Gerst</a> of ESA (European Space Agency), <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:2018-06-06" title="Category:2018-06-06">Wednesday, <b>June 6, 2018</b></a> at the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Baikonur" title="Baikonur">Baikonur</a> Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Prokopyev, Auñón-Chancellor, and Gerst will spend the next six months living and working aboard the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station" title="International Space Station">International Space Station</a>.
<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 6 June 2018
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