Launch Replays Of Soyuz TMA-17 With ISS Expedition 22 Astronauts
Video from the channel Matthew Travis about Soyuz (cohete), linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 4:08. Language: English. Video type: Launch.
Replay, with NASA TV commentary, of the launch of the Soyuz rocket that carried the Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft from Baikonur with the Expedition 22 crew to the International Space Station: T. J. Creamer, Oleg Kotov and Soichi Noguchi.
The sequence shows the retraction of the umbilical towers, the end of the countdown and liftoff. At 30 s the first stage is operating normally; at 1 min 10 s the speed is around 1,100 miles per hour, and poor weather limits visibility. At 2 min 20 s the four strap-on boosters have separated, at an altitude of about 28 statute miles.
The ascent proceeds normally and the spacecraft was due to dock with the station two days later.