                   APOD: 2018 June 15 - Little Planet Soyuz

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                                 2018 June 15
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                             Little Planet Soyuz
               Image Credit & Copyright [3] : Andrew Bodrov [4]

Explanation: Engines blazing [5] , a large rocket bids farewell to this little
planet. Of course, the little planet is really planet Earth and the large
rocket is a Soyuz-FG [6]  rocket. Launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome [7]
in Kazakhstan on June 6 it carried a Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft into orbit. On
board were International Space Station [8]  Expedition 56-57 crew members
Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos, Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA and Alexander
Gerst of ESA. Their spacecraft successfully docked with humanity's orbiting
outpost just two days later. The little planet projection is the digitally
warped and stitched [9] mosaic of images covering 360 by 180 degrees, captured
during the 2018 Star Trek car expedition [10] .

             Tomorrow's picture: dusty with a chance of dust [11]

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