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Space Station: new crew members ready for launch

Baikonur, Kazakhstan - Liftoff scheduled at 10:17 GMT/UTC from Baikonur

The three new astronauts of the Expedition 39 are waiting at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for their launch tonight, Tuesday 25 March 2014, to the International Space Station. The SpaceX Falcon rocket carrying the Dragon commercial cargo craft awaits its launch planned for Sunday evening from Cape Canaveral, Florida. New Flight Engineers Alexander Skvortsov, Steve Swanson and Oleg Artemyev...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1159198
Rome, Italy, 03/25/2014 11:47
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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