T-45 seconds, the ground umbilical to the third stage has been disconnected. The launch command will be issued at T-19 seconds. It's about 10 seconds from now. T-15 seconds, the second umbilical tower is now separating. T-10 seconds, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0. And lift off, lift off of Cara and Nyberg, Fjord or Yershikken and Luke at Palmitato on a six hour ride to the International Space Station. Good first stage performance, the Soyuz delivering 102 tons of thrust from its four boosters and single engine. The first stage of the Soyuz measures 68 feet in length, 24 feet in diameter, burning liquid fuel for the first two minutes and six seconds of flight. After 30 seconds, all parameters for the Soyuz rocket are nominal. We're now about one minute into the launch, the loss is should be 11, 1100 miles an hour. The Soyuz is blazing into the night sky over Kazakhstan. One hundred seconds into the flight and all systems are going. The escape tower has been G creed acent. The four strap on boosters have been jettisoned and these have completed their job and are going to be dropping away to an altitude of 28 statue miles, the Soyuz traveling at 3,350 miles an hour. Now receiving live views from inside the Soyuz capsule at the bottom is a fuel to your chicken at the top, Luke upon Matano as they monitor the controls of the Soyuz as it climbs into orbit. Shroud Jettison has been confirmed. The rocket's altitude now approximately 48 miles tall. Soyuz traveling at approximately 4700 miles an hour now. The Mishikotrol Moscow reports all parameters are normal. Second stage engines are in normal operation. The Soyuz core stage performing as expected. The core stage is 56 feet in length, 13 and a half feet in diameter and a single engine with four fuel chambers, providing 96 tons of thrust for its three minutes and 28 seconds of operation. The stage continues to burn until a four minute 43 second mark. The Soyuz uses what's called a hot stage technique. The third stage will ignite while the second is still burning and that's why the Soyuz has an open area in between the second and third stages. Second stage engine continuing to function normally and we have a good look at Karen Iber inside the spacecraft. At four minutes and 43 seconds, the third stage will ignite and the second stage will begin shutting down. Mishikotrol Moscow reports all systems normal. Second stage separation confirmed. The third stage is igniting. Karen Iberg waving as the flight continues to go normally. Now five minutes and thirty seconds following launch, the Soyuz is being propelled by the single engine of the Soyuz's third stage, that engine providing thirty tons of thrust, burning for four minutes and two seconds. This is the big loss reporting to flight director Roishrenfru that third stage engines are all nominal. Six and a half minutes since launch, all systems still normal. Mishikotrol Moscow reporting that the roll pitch and yaw control thrusters are all functioning well as the crew continues its climb into orbit. Third stage engine continues to operate normally. Three minutes and thirty seconds since launch, the spacecraft speed is almost thirteen thousand five hundred miles an hour. Once this third stage delivers the Soyuz to orbit and the module is separated, a series of pre-programmed commands will be executed to prepare the Soyuz for its orbit operations. These stored commands called time tag commands allow many of the Soyuz's systems to be automatically activated by onboard computers at precise time stored in those computers. Eight and a half minutes since launch from the Baikonur Cosbatroms, launch pad number one, Soyuz rocket and spacecraft continue to function as planned. At eight minutes and forty five seconds, coming up just now the third stage will cut off and separate. The single liquid fuel engine will have shut down and drop away at an altitude of about one hundred and twenty five statute miles. Visiting vehicle officer here in Mezikotrol reports to flight director Royce Renfrew that third stage separation has been confirmed. Soyuz capsule and crew inside are now safely in orbit and the spacecraft is automatically executing its pre-programmed commands to deploy the antennas and solar arrays.