BAIKONUR (Kazakhstan): At exactly 9.22pm (Malaysian time), the Soyuz -FG rocket launcher blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Russian Soyuz TMA-11 space vehicle carrying Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson and Malaysian astronaut Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor disappears into the evening sky as it travels to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan October 10, 2007. REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov
We have lift-off!
In less than nine minutes, Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor created history by becoming the first Malaysian in space.
Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor is first in line to bring the Jalur Gemilang shoulder patch into space.
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