From Baikonur launched the first after the accident with the Soyuz mission to the ISS
Rocket "Soyuz-FG" with the spacecraft "Soyuz MS-11" with three crew members launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome to the international comic station, reports journalist Last news .
the orbit went the citizen of Russia Oleg Kononenko, canadian David Saint-Jacques and his wife Anne Charlotte McClain. No more than ten minutes after launch the spacecraft separated from the upper stage of the rocket and headed to the ISS. Docking with the station is scheduled for 20: 36 GMT.
at the station a new Crew waiting for the Russian Astronaut Sergey Prokopiev, German Alexander Gerst and American Serine of Augen. It is expected that Kononenko, Saint-Jacques and McClain will be in orbit for 194 days.
from the beginning, the launch was planned for 20th in the number of December, But after the disaster of the rocket from the previous ship "Soyuz MS-10" eleven October it was decided to hold it earlier. The crew of the "tenth" of the "Union"
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