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On December 21, 2009 the Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft was launched at 00:52 (Moscow time) from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan.
By UTC the launch was performed on December 20, 2009 at 21:52.
The spacecraft is piloted by commander, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov; flight-engineer, American astronaut Timothy Creamer and flight-engineer, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi; who are to join the current ISS crew of Russian cosmonaut Maxim Surayev and U.S. astronaut Jeff Williams. Attachments: | 
