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two minutes 20 seconds away from launch

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the crew on board reporting in good

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health ready to go all the systems

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checking out

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the soyuz standing there on the pad

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where just 55 years ago in about a month

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yuri gagarin kicked off the age of human

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space flight jeff williams alexiochine

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and alex krapochka ready to keep it

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moving forward

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you'll see the final two umbilical

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towers attached to the vehicle um

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detached the first one separating about

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t minus 35 seconds then the final one uh

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detect

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retracting at about t minus 15 seconds

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and again the soyuz engines will fire

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for several seconds until the thrust of

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the rocket is able to overpower

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the force of the um holding arms keeping

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the rocket in place very simple but a

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very elegant way of keeping the rocket

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one minute and counting

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vehicle to internal power

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the vehicle now on internal power

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like you won everything there goes the

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first umbilical tower marking just about

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t minus 35

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should be under 30 seconds away from

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auto sequence initiated

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command issues for ignition

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second arm retracting launch command

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issued you can see the engines firing

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ramping up

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of maximum thrust the turbo pumps are at

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flight speed

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and liftoff jeff williams alexia opting

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and oleg skripochka launching to the

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the first stage of the

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soyuz booster delivering 930 000 pounds

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of thrust from the four strap-on

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first stage going to be burning liquid

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fuel for the first two minutes and six

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seconds into the flight

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let's see the crew on board again

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alexiochine in there in the center seat

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getting good reports of first stage

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functioning throughout the launch so far

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60 seconds in power slide your pitch and

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roll are nominal

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everything not on board musk

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so as we approach one minute and 10

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seconds into the flight the velocity of

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the vehicle already at about 1100 miles

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again everything continuing to go well

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with the ascent lasting just under nine

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minutes until these three crew members

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will be in space

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you'll see that owl

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begin to

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float in the microgravity environment an

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indicator of once they've reached their

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final altitude on board

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and the crew is feeling well

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and then in just a few seconds the

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and the visiting vehicle officer here in

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houston confirming the escape tower has

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been jettisoned and those four strap-on

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boosters have also been jettisoned

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they've completed their job and will now

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drop away soyuz already in an altitude

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of 28 statute miles cruising along in

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the at a speed of about 3

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140 seconds in the powered flight the

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structure is nominal

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everything is fine on board

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we are feeling fine zero zero 29 38

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we selected

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inaudible affirmative

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and so the second stage now firing the

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core booster continuing to push the

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and then getting confirmation now the

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launch shroud has been jettisoned so the

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soyuz spacecraft itself now exposed the

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rocket already in an altitude of about

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and just a little over three minutes

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into the flight so used to already

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traveling at a speed of about 4 700

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miles per hour there we can see nasa

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astronaut jeff williams this his third

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ride on the soyuz spacecraft getting

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ready for his fourth flight into space's

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third long duration mission on board the

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engines of the second stage

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the second stage continuing to perform

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as expected the core stage of the soyuz

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rocket measures 56 feet in length 13 and

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a half feet in diameter with a single

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engine with four fuel chambers providing

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between 178 thousand and 222 thousand

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pounds of thrust depending on the

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altitude of the rocket for its three

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minutes and 28 seconds of operation

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it's going to continue burning for about

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another 45 seconds or so until the 4

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minute 43 second mark and soyuz will use

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what's known as a hot stage technique

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the third stage will actually ignite

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while the second's still burning that's

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why the soyuz has that open area between

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the crew is doing well

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zero zero

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and all reports coming from

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russian flight controllers indicating

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and now we're going to be standing by

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and getting confirmation of second stage

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separation a bit of a jolt there the

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third stage now propelling the vehicle

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with a single engine this engine

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provides about 67 000 pounds of thrust

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it's going to burn for four minutes and

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romeo 11 is selected copy

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so already over five minutes into the

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flight the soyuz already in an altitude

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the crew is doing well

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again this third stage the final stage

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of the soyuz and it's climbed to orbit

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is going to fire until about eight

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minutes 45 seconds post liftoff so

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about another two and three quarters of

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a minute

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until the third stage is going to be

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done with its job and then at that point

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liquid single liquid fueled engine will

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again everything all the calls coming in

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the vehicle performing as expected not

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tracking any issues on the crew on board

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in good health and making their way

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and also again once the third stage

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delivers the soyuz to orbit the module

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separates away a series of

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pre-programmed commands will spring into

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action in order to prepare the soyuz for

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orbital operations

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that includes uh

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deploying the antennas and activating a

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number of computer commands to activate

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we are expecting separation

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and the crew is doing well thank you and

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we're just about seven minutes now post

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launch so another minute 45 seconds for

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at this point the vehicle approaching

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speeds of about 13

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copy

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flight

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so just about 25 seconds away from that

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third stage cut off and separation you

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can see the crew onboard the so you're

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still doing well keep your eye on that

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owl should start floating uh in just a

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few seconds actually

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and you can see the jolt the third stage

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has now separated the single

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liquid-fueled engine shut down and

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dropping away in an altitude of about

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the third stage performs an avoidance

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maneuver by opening a valve in its

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how do you read that

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and getting word from the visiting

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vehicle officer all antennas and the

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solar arrays have deployed so all those

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pre-programmed commands executed

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successfully the cores and telemetry

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antennas

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out and the solar arrays deployed to

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begin providing power to the soyuz

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again it's set on an altitude of about

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125 statute miles it's going to orbit at

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a an altitude of about 143 by

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118 miles but this orbit of course is

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going to be raised systematically over

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the course of the next six hours placing