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Great shot of the launch:

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GOES-R is set to launch into orbit aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on November 19 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral:




Launch window is 21:42-23:42 UTC and will be live on NASA TV.

More:

http://www.goes-r.gov/
 
Expedition 50-51 Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, Flight Engineers Peggy Whitson of NASA and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency dock to the station:

 
Cargo spacecraft "Progress MS-04" being prepared for launch:


Launch from Baikonur is on December 1st at 14:51 UTC.
 
50 years of Soyuz:


Nov. 28, 2016 — It launched under a different name and was not officially disclosed until almost two decades later, but Russia's first Soyuz spacecraft lifted off into history 50 years ago Monday (Nov. 28).

The Soyuz, which became the former Soviet Union's third class of crewed transport spacecraft and is still used today to take cosmonaut and astronaut crews to the International Space Station, first flew under the intentionally nondescript title "Kosmos 133" on Nov. 28, 1966.
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