Beautiful pictures from the start "MS-04 Soyuz" spacecraft

• Beautiful pictures from the start of space ship "MS-04 Alliance"

April 20 November carrier rocket "Soyuz-FG" with manned spacecraft "Soyuz MS-04" with a new crew to the International Space Station (ISS) went from Baikonur. Beautiful pictures from the start.

A few days before the launch of a rocket from the tow assembly and test facility to the launch pad of Baikonur, 17 April 2017. (Photo: NASA | Aubrey Gemignani):

rocket transported to launch site usually takes about one and a half hours. Speed of movement by train is about 3-4 km / h. (Photo: NASA | Aubrey Gemignani):

The next step - the rise of the rocket in a vertical position at the launch pad at Baikonur, 17 April 2017. (Photo: NASA | Aubrey Gemignani):

Technological farm (towers) provide a rigid fixation rocket in a vertical position before the start, and the start point are disconnected (rejected) from the rocket. (Photo: NASA | Aubrey Gemignani):

"Soyuz MS-04" on the launch pad at Baikonur. (Photo: NASA | Aubrey Gemignani):

Transport ships a new modification of "Progress MS" and "MS Union" development and production of RSC "Energia" created as a result of deep modernization of ships "Progress M" and "Soyuz TMA". Most technical solutions embodied in the design of the ship "MS Soyuz" and "Progress MS" will be used when creating a new generation of manned transport spacecraft being developed by RSC "Energia". (Photo: NASA | Aubrey Gemignani):

At Baikonur there is a tradition - a rocket lighting. Apparently, without it will not fly. Baikonur on 19 April 2017. (Photo: NASA | Aubrey Gemignani):

Another tradition Baikonur - to leave the autograph on the doors of their rooms in the hotel "Cosmonaut", in which members of the crew spent the night before the launch. Paint or wash autographs at the hotel door is strictly prohibited. (Photo: NASA | Aubrey Gemignani):

will eat particularly well at this time. Flew in space, Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and US astronaut Jack Fischer, and the place of the third crew member takes a 70-pound load of food. (Photo: NASA | Aubrey Gemignani):