What are the parts of the Soyuz rocket? What are the stages into orbit? What is the launch sequence? Watch and find out. This video has been produced from an actual lesson delivered to the ESA astronaut class of 2009 during their ESA Basic Training in 2009-2010 This video is a joint production of the ESA Human Spaceflight & Operation Astronaut Training Division & Promotion Office Note: Subtitles are available for English, Italian, Russian and German. Click on the caption button to choose. Technical Experts: Stephane Ghiste, Dmitriy Churkin Content Design: Stephane Ghiste, Dmitriy Churkin, Pascal Renten, Simon Trim, Matthew Day Video Production & Editing: Pascal Renten, Simon Trim, Andrea Conigli Narration Voice: Bernard Oattes Project Co-ordination: Loredana Bessone, Matthew Day Special Thanks to: Massimo Sabbatini, Guillaume Weerts ESA Human Spaceflight & Operation Promotion Office Martin Schweiger (for use of his Orbiter software: http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk) Nikita Vtyurin, Andrew Thielmann (Orbiter Soyuz model) Iacopo Baroncini (Soyuz model) Joey P. Wade (Google Earth Soyuz models) NASA ROSCOSMOS Watch Part 2: Soyuz rendezvous and docking explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2_NeFbFcSw Watch Part 3: Soyuz undocking, reentry and landing explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l7MM9yoxII ★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications. Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideos Follow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitter On Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebook On Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagram On Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickr We are Europe's gateway to space. Our mission is to shape the development of Europe's space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world. Check out http://www.esa.int/ESA to get up to speed on everything space related. Copyright information about our videos is available here: http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Terms_and_Conditions #ESA #ISS #Soyuz