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Soyuz TMA-8


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Common Description: International Space Station Imagery

Description: JSC2006-E-11602 (30 March 2006) — With the launch of a Soyuz rocket, cosmonaut Pavel V. Vinogradov, Russia?s Federal Space Agency Expedition 13 International Space Station commander, and astronaut Jeffrey N. Williams, NASA International Space Station science officer and flight engineer, began their mission Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. EST, (Thursday, March 30, 2006, 8:30 a.m. Kazakhstan time). They launched aboard a Soyuz TMA-8 rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Joining them for a number of days as a Soyuz crew member prior to returning house with the Expedition 12 crew is astronaut Marcos Pontes, Brazilian Space Agency. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

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Expedition 13


Image by NASA on The Commons
Collection: NASA Human Spaceflight Collection
Common Description: International Space Station Imagery

Description: JSC2006-E-11601 (30 March 2006) — With the launch of a Soyuz rocket, cosmonaut Pavel V. Vinogradov, Russia‘s Federal Space Agency Expedition 13 International Space Station commander, and astronaut Jeffrey N. Williams, NASA International Space Station science officer and flight engineer, began their mission Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. EST, (Thursday, March 30, 2006, 8:30 a.m. Kazakhstan time). They launched aboard a Soyuz TMA-8 rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Joining them for many days as a Soyuz crew member before returning home with the Expedition 12 crew is astronaut Marcos Pontes, Brazilian Space Agency. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

image id: Photo-jsc2006e11601
UID: SPD-SPFLT-Photo-jsc2 006e11601
Original url: spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-13/html/…

SOURCE: nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/detail/nasaNAS~16~16~112572~2…

Go to www.nasaimages.org for the most comprehensive compilation of NASA stills, film and video, created in partnership with Internet Archive.

Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared

“A captivating read notable for off-the-cuff candor and measured, eloquent prose.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred assessment

A funny and revealing travelogue of Kazakhstan, a country wealthy with wild tulips, oil, nomads who hunt with golden eagles, and a disappearing landlocked sea.

Closed to foreigners under Tsar and Soviet rule, Kazakhstan has remained largely hidden from the globe, a remarkable feat for a country the size of Western Europe. Few would guess that Kazakhstan—a blank in Westerners’ collective geography—turns out to be diverse, tolerant, and surprisingly contemporary, the nation that gave the globe apples, trousers, and even, maybe, King Arthur.

Christopher Robbins enjoyed unprecedented access to the Kazakh president whilst crafting this travelogue, and he relates a story by turns hilarious and grim. He finds Eminem-worship by a shrinking Aral Sea, hears the Kazakh John Lennon play in a dusty desert town, joins nomads hunting eagles, eats boiled sheep’s head (a delicacy), and explores some of the most gorgeous, unspoiled places on earth. Observant and culturally attuned, Robbins is a master stylist in the tradition of travel writing as literature, a companion to V. S. Naipaul and Paul Theroux. 39 black-and-white illustrations

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WASHINGTON, (PRWEB) November 28, 2003

President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a decree on November 17 authorizing the signature by the Republic of Kazakhstan of the two international human rights covenants, which, in addition to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, form the International Bill of Human Rights.

According to the decree, Kazakhstan will soon join the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenants on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. These covenants were approved by the UN Common Assembly in December 1966. As of right now, 148 countries are members of the document on civil and political rights, and 145 countries have already joined to the document on economic, social and cultural rights.

Bolat Baikadamov, Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Kazakhstan, at a news conference in Astana on November 19 said the adoption of these covenants will assist Kazakhstan in creating a democratic state.

States that have signed these documents have a responsibility to annually provide UN with official information on condition of human rights and collaborate with UN entities in order to remove uncovered violations of citizen’s rights and freedoms.

Kazakhstan‘s final joining to the covenants will take place after their ratification by the Parliament of the county with adjustments taking into account specifics of present national legislation in the sphere of human rights protection.

In particular, Kazakhstan plans to keep reservations concerning the appropriate for strikes. According to the law about state service, public employees are not allowed to strike.

Kazakhstan is also intending to object to reservations by other countries. One of them is the reservation by the United States that enables the U.S. to sentence under-18-year-olds to death penalty. According to Kazakhstan‘s legislation for under aged persons and girls are not to be sentenced to death. This concern is most likely to be present in the civil rights agenda for some time, since Kazakhstan is deliberating the introduction of life sentencing instead of death penalties.

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