Russian Soyuz rocket launches American, Russian, Japanese to space station - SlashGear

Among the group&#8217;s tasks are performing space station maintenance and a whole bunch of science experiments that can only be achieved in space. During a preflight briefing, Williams said, &#8220;Unfortunately our mission is only four months â€" I wish it would be years and years and years. I&#8217;m really lucky to be flying with Yuri and Aki. I think we&#8217;re going to have a great time.&#8221;From Russia is Yuri Malenchenko and from Japan is Akihiko Hoshide. The launch today coincided with the anniversary of the very first inernational space mission. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project began on July 15, 1975. On this 37th anniversary, it is of course very refreshing to see an astronaut and a cosmonaut on the very same spacecraft serving the same purpose.<br />http://www.slashgear.com/russian-soyuz-rocket-launches-american-russian-japanese-to-space-station-15238634/