3 Soyuz Astronauts Blast Off for Space Station

[Rico]

One America astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts blasted off heading to the Space Station this morning.  Was the American named Howard who appears on the Big Bang Theory?  :)

An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts successfully departed from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan this morning for a two-day trip to the International Space Station (ISS).
NASA astronaut Joe Acaba as well as Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin launched at 11:01pm Eastern time on Monday (video below), and reached orbit 10 minutes later.
The trio is expected to dock at the ISS at 12:38am Thursday morning and begin a four-month stay at the station. They will join Commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineers Don Pettit and Andre Kuipers, who have been there since Dec. 23 and are scheduled to return on July 1.

full story:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2404439,00.asp

http://youtu.be/JIWjMkRehnE

[sheldor]

Too funny