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launch command issued for ignition

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second umbilical tower separates

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the second umbilical tower has retracted

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you can see the engines firing now going

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up to flight speed

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and liftoff

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shane kimbrough sergey rizhikov and

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andre borisenko blasting off from

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kazakhstan making their way towards the

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getting good calls from the teams down

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in baikonur everything looking nominal

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or normal throughout the flight so far

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the first stage of the soyuz delivering

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delivering 930 000 pounds of thrust from

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those four strap-on boosters and single

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core engine

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second things looking fairly calm inside

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for the crew members which are now

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rocketing over the kazakh step

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the first stage measuring 68 feet in

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length and 24 feet in diameter it's

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going to be burning that liquid fuel for

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the first two minutes and six seconds of

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already 70 seconds into the flight

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velocity of the craft now over 1 100

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hour next major milestone will be the

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jettison of the escape tower that coming

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again you're continuing to get live

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views inside of the cabin of the soyuz

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spacecraft already well in excess of

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1000 miles an hour rocketing towards

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space

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one minute 45 seconds since liftoff

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continuing to get good performance calls

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from the

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ground engineers in the launch bunker

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all of the different parameters on the

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soyuz

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rocket continuing to look nominal or

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first stage separation

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and so the first stage those four

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strap-on boosters at this point have

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been jettisoned completing their job and

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dropping away the soyuz already at an

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altitude of about 28 statute miles

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traveling in excess of 3

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350 miles per hour

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again the core stage or the second stage

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getting confirmation the launch shroud

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has been jettisoned that protective

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shroud around the soyuz spacecraft so

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the spacecraft itself you can see some

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light coming in the window

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just over borisenko's head launch route

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so the soyuz now exposed

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170 seconds and second stage thruster

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is operating nominally and the crew is

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feeling good everything looking good

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with the second stage as we cross the

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three minute mark soyuz now traveling to

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the speed of about

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in the core stage performing as expected

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it's 56 feet in length 13 and a half

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feet in diameter that single engine with

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four fuel chambers providing between 178

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and 222 000 pounds of thrust depending

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on where they're at in the earth's

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atmosphere getting away from shane

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kimbrough there in the right seat making

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his first flight into space on this

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soyuz spacecraft second stage going to

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continue to burn until the four-minute

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43 second mark at that point they're

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going to do what's known as a hot stage

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where the third stage will ignite while

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the second's still burning

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this is why the soyuz has that small

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open grating area in between the second

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just past four minutes into the flight

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now continuing to get good calls

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everything looking normal with this

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ascent again the whole process today

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going to take about eight minutes 45

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seconds from that liftoff until the

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250 seconds and ypr are nominal

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and

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confirmed the core booster now separated

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in an altitude of over 105 statute miles

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so

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that third stage single engine now

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providing 67 000 pounds of thrust

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burning for four minutes and two seconds

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and is going to deliver the soyuz into

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its initial orbit

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330 seconds and third stage thruster is

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operating nominally

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everything nominal on board the crew is

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seconds nominal flight

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everything nominal on board the crew is

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it's already been over six and a half

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minutes since liftoff which happened

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right on time at 305 am central time 205

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pm over in baikonur

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everything with the rocket has gone

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flawlessly so far the first stage

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separating on time the second stage

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separating as well now powered by that

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single third stage engine

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this is going to continue to burn until

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about the eight minute 45 second mark so

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and then once the third stage delivers

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the soyuz into its initial orbit the

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module separates it'll execute all those

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pre-programmed commands to prepare for

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all of its on-orbit operations extending

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the solar arrays and all the necessary

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navigation and communication antennas on

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the board

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the crew is feeling good

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460 seconds

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all parameters are normal

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and the crew is feeling good

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and everything nominal on board copy

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490 seconds

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press the operation stable

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everything nominal

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510

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seconds 520 seconds

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seeing the telltale jolt and getting

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confirmation the third stage has

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already getting confirmation the solar

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arrays have deployed

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sounding like the navigation antennas as

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confirmation from the visiting vehicle

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officer here in houston the solar rays

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and all antennas now deployed so use

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11 40.

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right now the spacecraft orbiting at an

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altitude of about 143 miles by 118.

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this orbit going to be raised

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systematically over the course of the

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next two days as they begin to chase

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down the international space station but

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for now three crew members safely in