At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft was mated to its booster rocket on Oct. 20. The Soyuz will launch Expedition 33/34 Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, NASA Flight Engineer Kevin Ford and Russian Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin on Oct. 23, with docking to the International Space Station on Oct. 25. The trio will spend five months on the laboratory, joining station Commander Sunita Williams, Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Russian Flight Engineer Yuri Malenchenko, who have been in orbit since mid-July.
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The Expedition 33/34 Soyuz Spacecraft Meets Its Booster Rocket
At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft was mated to its booster rocket on Oct. 20. The Soyuz will launch Expedition 33/34 Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, NASA Flight Engineer Kevin Ford and Russian Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin on Oct. 23, with docking to the International Space Station on Oct. 25. The trio will spend five months on the laboratory, joining station Commander Sunita Williams, Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Russian Flight Engineer Yuri Malenchenko, who have been in orbit since mid-July.
