On June 07, 2011 at 20:12 UTC (on June 08 at 00:12 Moscow time) the Russian "Soyuz TMA-02M” spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome.
The spacecraft is piloted by 3 cosmonauts: Commander, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov (center); flight-engineer, American astronaut Michael Fossum (left); flight-engineer, Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (right).(photo by the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre)
The space vehicle is to dock with the International Space Station on June 09.
