{"id":368381,"date":"2011-04-04T23:28:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T23:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/04\/new-crew-head-for-space-station\/"},"modified":"2011-04-04T23:28:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T23:28:21","slug":"new-crew-head-for-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/04\/new-crew-head-for-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"New crew head for space station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"71.865816326531\">\n    \t\t  <span><br \/>\n    <span>4 April 2011<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Last updated at <\/span><span>19:28 ET<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>        <!--  Embedding the video player --><br \/>\n<!--  This is the embedded player component --><\/p>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<div>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"holding\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/4062bb238619_de29-1.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Rocket launch\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please turn on JavaScript.<\/strong> Media requires JavaScript to play.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <!-- embedding script --><\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <!-- companion banner --> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<!-- END - companion banner --><!-- caption --><\/p>\n<p>The Soyuz blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<!-- END - caption -->\n        <\/div>\n<p><!-- end of the embedded player component --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Player embedded -->\t<\/p>\n<p>A new crew for the International Space Station has blasted off from Russia&#8217;s Baikonur space port in Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz rocket.<\/p>\n<p>The two Russians and one US astronaut are to join three others &#8211; a Russian, an American and an Italian &#8211; aboard the station.<\/p>\n<p>Their spacecraft is emblazoned with the name and portrait of the USSR&#8217;s Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space.<\/p>\n<p>Gagarin&#8217;s historic journey took place 50 years ago this month. <\/p>\n<p>The Russian Soyuz TMA-1 spacecraft was launched on a Soyuz-FG rocket at  0418 local time (2218 GMT Monday), and is due to dock with the space station at 0518 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Russian crewmen Andrei Borisenko, 46, and Alexander Samokutyayev, 40, are making their first journey to the space station while America&#8217;s Ron Garan, 49, spent 13 days in space on a shuttle mission in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got Ron who&#8217;s got this experience and he promised to help us with some issues and the feelings that we might encounter and that cannot be modelled on earth,&#8221; Samokutyayev told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>In time-honoured tradition, the three men earlier visited the cabin where Gagarin spent his last night before his flight.<\/p>\n<p>Garan said he had got &#8220;a little bit of chills&#8221; when he visited the cabin, where all the furniture and even the space pioneer&#8217;s personal belongings are kept intact.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fifty years ago, one nation launched one man, basically as a competition,&#8221; he remarked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, the three of us represent the many nations of the international partnership that makes up the International Space Station.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/4062bb238619_de29-1.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The rest is here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/science-environment-12967227\" title=\"New crew head for space station\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New crew head for space station<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 4 April 2011 Last updated at 19:28 ET Please turn on JavaScript. 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