Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA, Soyuz Commander Max Suraev of Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency, and Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (ESA) will launch aboard the Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft at 3:57 p.m. EDT Wednesday (1:57 a.m. Thursday, Kazakh time) to begin a six-hour, four-orbit trek to the space station. Live NASA Television coverage of the launch begins at 3 p.m. NASA TV coverage will resume at 9 p.m. with the automated approach by the Soyuz to the Earth-facing port of the station’s Rassvet Mini-Research Module-1 for docking at 9:48 p.m. Commander Steve Swanson of NASA and Flight Engineers Oleg Artemyev and Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos, who have been aboard the orbiting complex since March 27, will welcome the new trio of Expedition 40 flight engineers aboard when the hatches open at 11:25 p.m. Read more: go.nasa.gov/1mFhtJ4
Posted on: Wed, 28 May 2014 15:37:58 +0000
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