May 27, 2009.
SoyuzTMA-15 launch.
On May 27, 2009 at 10.34 GMT the Russian SoyuzTMA-15 spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome.
The crew: Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, SoyuzTMA-15 Commander; European Space Agency astronaut Frank De Winne (Belgium), flight-engineer; Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk, flight-engineer.
The trio will join three other residents on the International Space station to form a six-person crew for the first time.
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