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the launch just now @ 9.22 pm malaysia time 🙂

Expedition 16 Spaceflight Participant Soyuz Launch (NASA TV)

naper muka dr sms nampak pucat je eh? hehehehehe 🙂

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banyak gak iklan2 neh eh 🙂

iklan the gathering – program angkasawan negara

iklan the hero – program angkasawan negara

iklan digi

iklan merdeka 2007 – program angkasawan negara

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JSC2007-E-38109 (23 July 2007) — Malaysian spaceflight participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor responds to a query from the media during an Expedition 16 pre-flight press conference at the Johnson Space Center.

JSC2007-E-38115 (23 July 2007) — European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Leopold Eyharts (left) and astronaut Garrett Reisman, both Expedition 16 flight engineers; along with Malaysian spaceflight participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor are photographed during a pre-flight press conference at the Johnson Space Center. Eyharts is scheduled to arrive on the International Space Station in December to replace Dan Tani of NASA (out of frame), who arrives in October. Reisman is scheduled to arrive on the station in February 2008 to replace Eyharts.

JSC2007-E-38132 (23 July 2007) — Astronaut Peggy Whitson (right), Expedition 16 commander; Russia’s Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, flight engineer and Soyuz commander; and Malaysian spaceflight participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor pose for a portrait following a pre-flight press conference at the Johnson Space Center. Whitson, Malenchenko and Shukor are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in a Soyuz spacecraft in October.

Expedition 16 in Orbit, Heads to Station

Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson, Flight Engineer Yuri Malenchenko and spaceflight participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor are in orbit and on their way to the International Space Station. Their Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Wednesday at 9:22 a.m. EDT and entered orbit less than 10 minutes later. They will dock to the Earth-facing port of the station’s Zarya module on Friday about 10:52 a.m.

Image above: The Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft was transported by railcar to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Oct. 8, 2007 for launch Oct. 10. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

The Expedition 15 crew has been busy readying the station as they prepare to greet their replacements and Malaysian guest. Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov set up a work space in the Zvezda service module that will allow the visiting Shukor to perform several experiments over nine days. Flight Engineer Clay Anderson also resized U.S. spacesuits for Whitson and Malenchenko for an upcoming spacewalk. The current station crew also held space-to-ground teleconferences with their Expedition 16 counterparts to assist with handover activities.