Soyuz TMA-13 Spacecraft

**Hunted** · #1 ● 10-11-2008, 07:19 PM

WTF are they still using steam engines.... or that's a fucking dirty diesel engine.

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The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft is transported by railcar to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

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A Russian soldier stands guard by the SOYUZ TMA-13 rocket as it is transported to the launch pad of the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, on October 10, 2008.

**chris** · #2 ● 10-11-2008, 08:47 PM

Well it is Kazakhstan, I'm impressed they aren't using horse and buggy

**kellyhound** · #3 ● 10-12-2008, 12:47 PM

The spacecraft was launched by a Soyuz-FG rocket at 07:01 GMT on 12 October 2008. It is scheduled to land in April 2009. By some counts, Soyuz TMA-13 is the 100th Soyuz spacecraft to be crewed.

Great achievement.

Soyuz TMA-13 Spacecraft

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