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Radio communications between Yuri Gagarin, Sergei Korolev and Ground Control

Gagarin starts into space. Start transmission before liftoff. Radio communications between Yuri Gagarin (code name "Cedar") Sergei Korolev (code name "Sunset-1) and ground control during the space ship launch. In Russian, with English subtitles:

Soyuz Undocks, Crew Heads Home

The Soyuz capsule carrying the three Expedition 31 crew members undocks form the International Space Station and begins its journey back to Earth.

Planet Earth seen from space

From ISS.

Earth at night seen from space ISS

All images used in this video were taken by the astronauts of Expedition 29 (Commander Mike Fossum, Flight Engineer Dan Burbank, Flight Engineers Satoshi Furukawa, Sergei Volkov, Anatoly Ivanishin and Anton Shkaplerov) aboard the International Space Station. ISS altitude is about 350 kilometers above Earth surface.