[FPSPACE] First-ever Winter Night Launch Of Soyuz Manned Spaceship

[Nicolas PILLET]

I remember the launch of Soyouz TM-27 with French cosmonaut Léopold Eyharts : it was a night launch in late january...

From: jameseoberg at comcast.net
To: fpspace at friends-partners.org
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:03:57 -0600
Subject: [FPSPACE] First-ever Winter Night Launch Of Soyuz Manned Spaceship











Never launched a Soyuz, ever before, in December in the 
dark?
Is that consistent with our data bases?
Just wondering.
 
 
First-ever Winter Night Launch Of Soyuz Manned Spaceship Planned For Dec 
21
Moscow ITAR-TASS in English 1545 GMT 18 Dec 
09
BAIKONUR 
(Kazakhstan), December 18 
(Itar-Tass) -- The Soyuz TMA 17 spaceship will take off from the Baikonur 
spaceport in Kazakhstan in the small morning hours 
of December 21.

"That would be the first launch of a Soyuz spaceship done 
on a winter night," a representative of the Energia Aerospace Corporation told 
the media on Friday. "As a rule, Soyuz launches have taken place in spring, 
summer or fall and in broad daylight." 		 	   		  
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