Live action recordings of the arrival, unloading and preliminary testing of ESA's Mars Express spacecraft at Baikonur ready for its launch on the 02 June 2003 on board a Soyuz Fregat launcher from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
This tape is the first of five filmed by a Louch cameraman over a period of 4 days from the 20 to the 24 March 2003.

Tc In : 00:00:21
Tc Out : 00:30:44
00:00:37
Thursday 20 March 2003, the Antonov 124 cargo plane approching Baikonour ""Yubileiny"" Airport, in the central steppes of the Kazakh Republic.( with the Mars Express spacecraft, the Beagle 2 lander, and all support equipment)
00:22:17
Mars Express loading :bad weather ( raining) : all the containers are transfered by train to the integration hall MIK 112.