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ISS: new members of Expedition 40 to depart today

Baikonur, Kazakhstan - The liftoff is scheduled at 8:57 pm GMT/UTC

During the next hours the crew of the ISS will return to have six members, as usual: NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, cosmonaut Maxim Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency and German astronaut Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency are set to launch aboard their Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8:57 pm GMT/UTC Wednesday (1:57 am Thursday, Kazakh time). Less...

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Rome, Italy, 05/28/2014 07:03
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