New Space Station Crew Getting Ready to Launch
Three new crew members for the International Space Station (ISS) are getting ready for launch on Russia’s Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft on Tuesday.
Shannon Walker and Doug Wheelock from the United States and Fyodor Yurchikhin from Russia will join American Tracy Caldwell Johnson and Russians Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko who already are on the ISS. The Soyuz TMA-19 launch is scheduled for 5:35 pm EDT on Tuesday, June 15, with docking at the ISS expected on Thursday at 6:25 pm.
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