1st Brazilian in Space Blasts Off With 2 Others
From Times Wire Reports
A Russian Soyuz rocket streaked into the skies from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying a crew consisting of an American, a Russian and a Brazilian to the International Space Station.
Russian Pavel Vinogradov and American Jeffrey Williams were to stay on board the station for about six months. Brazil’s first man in space, Marcos C. Pontes, will stay at the station for nine days before returning to Earth on April 9 with the station’s current crew of Russian Valery Tokarev and American Bill McArthur.
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