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Soyuz TMA-10 is a current Soyuz mission, a human spaceflight mission transporting personnel to the International Space Station (ISS). Launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, atop a Soyuz FG carrier rocket, the mission began at 17:31:09 UTC on 7 April 2007. The spacecraft will remain at the space station as an escape craft, and is expected to return to Earth in October 2007, when it will be replaced by Soyuz TMA-11.

Soyuz TMA-10 transported two members of the ISS Expedition 15 crew to the space station, along with one spaceflight participant. It docked to the International Space Station on 9 April at 22:10 UTC, following two days of free flight. Its two Russian crew members will remain on the station until the Soyuz’s return to Earth in October 2007. Spaceflight participant Charles Simonyi (The creator of Microsoft Word) will return to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-9, following eleven days of ISS handover operations.

Russian booster rocket Soyuz TMA-10 will take the new crew to the International Space Station.

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American businessman Charles Simonyi, who paid the Russians some $20 million to become history’s fifth space tourist

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The launch was set at 17:31:09 UTCApril 7, 2007; from Baikonur space port, Kazakhstan

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