NASA: New space station crew members to launch September 25

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    NASA Television has announced it will provide live extensive coverage of the launch of three crew members of Expedition 37-38 tomorrow as they travel to the International Space Station.

    The launch will be from Kazakhstan tomorrow.
    NASA announced the launch in a press release.

    The crew will include Michael Hopkins of NASA, Sergey Ryazanskiy and Oleg Kotov of the Russian Space Agency. The crew will depart from the Baikonur Comsodrome tomorrow at 4:58 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time onboard a Soyuz spacecraft. NASA will begin coverage at 4:00 a.m.

    Kotov will command the spaceship. Hopkins and Ryazanskiy will act as engineers. The rendezvous with the space station will occur after four orbits of earth. The space ship will dock with the Poisk module on the Russian side of the space station at 10:47 p.m. NASA will begin coverage of that event at 10:00 p.m.

    Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/358967#ixzz2fqyQ8yZN
     

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