Russia’s Soyuz rocket carrier with the manned spacecraft Soyuz
TMA-05M has taken off for the International Space Station from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It will take the US-Russian-Japanese
crew two days to reach the ISS.
The crew of the next long-term Expedition 32/33 lifted off into
orbit at 2:40 am GMT and the automated docking with the ISS is scheduled
for July 17 at 7:40 am Moscow Time (3:40 am GMT).
Russian
cosmonaut Yury Malenchenko, NASA astronaut Sanita Williams and Japanese
astronaut Akihiko Hoshide will join up at the space station with the
previous crew, NASA Flight Engineer Joseph Acaba and two Russian
cosmonauts, Gennady Padalka and Sergey Revin, and stay at the ISS for
four months.
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