On May, 27 2009 at 14.34 Moscow time SOYUZ-FG LV launched SOYUZ TMA-15 from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
SOYUZ TMA-15 flight mission is to deliver the twentieth long-duration crew composed of one Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, spacecraft commander, ESA cosmonaut Frank de Vinne, flight engineer, and CSA cosmonaut Robert Tirske, flight engineer. The crew are to make a number of different experiments within the bounds of flight mission.
SOYUZ-FG LV is designed and produced by the State Research and Production Space Rocket Centre “TsSKB-Progress” (Samara).