Soyuz is a family of expendable Russian and Soviet carrier rockets developed by OKB-1 and manufactured by Progress Rocket Space Centre in Samara, Russia. The Soyuz is the rocket with the most launches in the history of spaceflight.
A Soyuz-FG rocket carrying the Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on 18 September 2006.
Soyuz rocket engines (Soyuz TMA-5)
Soyuz-FG erected at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad 1/5 Gagarin's Start (Soyuz TMA-13, October 2008).
Soyuz 2 ready to launch (2007)
PAO S. P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, also known as RSC Energia, is a Russian manufacturer of spacecraft and space station components. The company is the prime developer and contractor of the Russian crewed spaceflight program; it also owns a majority of Sea Launch. Its name is derived from Sergei Korolev, the first chief of its design bureau, and the Russian word for energy.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the museum of the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation