Soyuz launch double-header set for Friday

Russian launch crews on two continents are putting the final touches on a pair of Soyuz rockets scheduled to blast off less than two hours apart Friday — one carrying a three-man crew to the space station, and another boosting two European navigation satellites into orbit from the Amazon jungle. The first launch Friday is set for 3:42 p.m. EDT (1942 GMT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with three passengers heading for the International Space Station. The Soyuz FG rocket will depart from the cosmodrome’s historic Complex No. 1, where Yuri Gagarin took off in 1961 to become the first human to travel in space. More

(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Mar 25)