New ISS Crew Set to Dock Friday Morning
The three crew currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will get an early Christmas present Friday morning — three more crew members, restoring the space laboratory to its full complement of six.
NASA’s Don Pettit, Russia’s Oleg Kononenko, and Europe’s Andre Kuipers (from the Netherlands) are scheduled to dock with the ISS about 10:22 am EST. They will join NASA’s Dan Burbank and Russia’s Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivinishin, who boarded the ISS last month.
Burbank got another special treat yesterday, witnessing a comet streak by in the sky. He took stunning video of it — and of the ISS becoming illuminated at orbital sunrise — that is available on NASA’s website.
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