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Baikonur Cosmodrome Expedition 42 Launch

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http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Futura/Watch_Futura_launch_live

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is all set for her five-month mission on the International Space Station. She will leave Earth on Sunday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with NASA astronaut Terry Virts and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov.

Forza Italia!

Seriously though, stream starts at

Coverage starts at 20:00 with launch scheduled for 21:01.

This is GMT time. Begins at noon Pacific Coast time (USA). Launch is at 1 PM PST.

Should be an interesting launch. I've never seen one at the Cosmodrome before!

Coverage has started already here (Thanks Kryten!:))

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Now there is a report that they are playing that music to the crew and it also tests the communication systems. (Sorry for double post, but I wanted this to be separate.)

EDIT - Aningaaq beat me! Looks like it isn't a double post after all...

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Now there is a report that they are playing that music to the crew and it also tests the communication systems. (Sorry for double post, but I wanted this to be separate.)

EDIT - Aningaaq beat me! Looks like it isn't a double post after all...

haha, no worries. Looks like we're both paying attention!

T - 15 minutes!

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Very nice launch. I gotta say that ride looks "smooth". I love to look for MECO. Question... I saw in the simulated view the third stages spins up after separation. Why is this? Are there retrorockets of sorts to give it a spin for a more destructive reentry?

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dharak1 The first is the most magical, savor it! They don't get any less cool.

I remember my first one. If I'm not mistaken, it was a Delta IV Heavy carrying some classified DoD satellite. Funny thing is that although the wouldn't say what was the payload, amateur observers were able to identify its final position processing the data given by ULA. It ended up being a ComSat for the US Government.

Very nice launch. I gotta say that ride looks "smooth". I love to look for MECO. Question... I saw in the simulated view the third stages spins up after separation. Why is this? Are there retrorockets of sorts to give it a spin for a more destructive reentry?

I'd guess they use it for stabilization. I didn't watch the video (was out with my soon-to-be girlfriend ᕦ( á° Üʖ á°)ᕤ), but I know it's been done before. Mainly before staging solid upper stages.

Here's a relevant xkcd KSP video on the topic:

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eh :P one of the things Soyuz 42/43 which was along for the ride :

the ISSpresso machine :

http://www.ibtimes.com/espresso-space-lavazza-launch-isspresso-authentic-italian-experience-orbit-1604996

and of course, they had to have the first italian female astronaut onboard the soyuz too :P

now they'll be able to have espressos on ISS :P

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