a few minutes until the spacecraft is going to come technicians and engineers check every detail up until the last moment everything has to work perfectly thomas reiter is a retired astronaut who has come to watch obviously the launch as one of the more risky phases but it's also something the crew is really looking forward to to experience these incredible forces that push the humans from the surface of this planet into orbit it's remarkable that. it's pretty quick less than nine minutes from lift off until you reach the weightlessness and you are traveling with almost twenty eight thousand kilometers per hour it's something to look forward to. the final finishing touches everybody here is a true professional. now we have some time left to look around at the city of baikonur just twenty kilometers from the spaceport. this is where the staff of the