Next ISS Crew Ready for Launch on Monday
Three new crew members for the International Space Station (ISS) are readying for launch on Russia’s Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft late Monday evening Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
The launch is scheduled for 11:01 pm EDT on May 14, which will be 10:01 am May 15 in Kazakhstan where the Baikonur Cosmodrome is located. NASA will carry the launch live on NASA TV beginning at 10:00 pm EDT.
NASA astronaut Joe Acaba and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin will dock with the ISS two days later, joining the three crew members who are there already: Russian Commander Oleg Kononenko, NASA’s Don Pettit and Europe’s Andre Kuipers.
If all goes according to plan, one of the first tasks for the 6-person crew will be berthing SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft with the ISS. The Dragon launch is currently scheduled for May 19.
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