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Fri, Oct 08, 2010

New Space Station Crew Members Launch From Kazakhstan

Arrival At ISS Expected Saturday Evening

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka launched to the International Space Station aboard their Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft at 0510 local time Friday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.


TMA-01M Launch NASA Image

Kelly, Soyuz commander Kaleri and Skripochka are scheduled to dock with their new home at 1902 on Saturday. They will join Expedition 25 crewmates Doug Wheelock, a NASA astronaut and the station's commander, NASA astronaut Shannon Walker and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, who have been aboard the station since June 17.

The six-person crew will usher in the next decade of continuous human presence on the station, continuing scientific research and station maintenance activities. The station residents will welcome the crew of the last flight of space shuttle Discovery on the STS-133 mission, targeted to launch Nov. 1. The shuttle will deliver critical supplies and the Permanent Multipurpose Module that will provide additional storage for the station crew, and experiments may be conducted inside it.

Yurchikhin and Skripochka are scheduled to conduct a spacewalk in Russian Orlan suits in mid-November to work on science experiments and hardware on the station's Russian segment.


TMA-01M Lifted Into Launch Position

Wheelock, Walker and Yurchikhin, who launched to the station on June 15, are scheduled to return to Earth on November 29. Before departing, Wheelock will hand over command of the station to Kelly for Expedition 26, which begins when the Soyuz TMA-19 undocks November 29.

NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, Russian cosmonaut Dimitry Kondratyev and European Space Agency astronaut Páolo Néspoli will join Kelly, Kaleri and Skripochka in orbit to complete the Expedition 26 crew. Their Soyuz currently is scheduled to launch December 13 and will dock to the station on December 15.

FMI: www.nasa.gov

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