Expedition 31 Trio Blasts Off for International Space Station

Expe­di­tion 31 Trio Blasts Off for Inter­na­tion­al Space Station



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NASA Flight Engi­neer Joseph Aca­ba, Russ­ian Soyuz Com­man­der Gen­nady Padal­ka and Flight Engi­neer Sergei Revin lift­ed off for the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion at 11:01 p.m. EDT Mon­day, May 14 (9:01 a.m. Baikonur time on May 15), from the Baikonur Cos­mod­rome in Kazakhstan.

Aca­ba, Padal­ka and Revin are sched­uled to dock their Soyuz TMA-04M space­craft to the Poisk mod­ule of the sta­tion at 12:38 a.m. Thurs­day, May 17. They will join Expe­di­tion 31 Com­man­der Oleg Kononenko of the Russ­ian Fed­er­al Space Agency and Flight Engi­neers Don Pet­tit of NASA and André Kuipers of the Euro­pean Space Agency, who have been aboard the orbit­ing lab­o­ra­to­ry since Decem­ber 23, 2011. The six astro­nauts and cos­mo­nauts will work togeth­er for about two months.



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