Expedition 38/39 Crew Departs for Kazakh Launch Site

Expe­di­tion 38/39 Crew Departs for Kaza­kh Launch Site



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Expe­di­tion 38/39 Soyuz Com­man­der Mikhail Tyurin of the Russ­ian Fed­er­al Space Agency (Roscos­mos), Flight Engi­neer Rick Mas­trac­chio of NASA and Flight Engi­neer Koichi Waka­ta of the Japan Aero­space Explo­ration Agency and back­up crew mem­bers Max Suraev of Roscos­mos, Reid Wise­man of NASA and Alexan­der Gerst of the Euro­pean Space Agency par­tic­i­pat­ed in tra­di­tion­al cer­e­monies at the Gagarin Cos­mo­naut Train­ing Cen­ter in Star City, Rus­sia, out­side Moscow on Oct. 26. After­ward, they depart­ed for the Baikonur Cos­mod­rome in Kaza­khstan to com­plete their train­ing for the launch of Tyurin, Mas­trac­chio and Waka­ta to the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion in the Soyuz TMA-11M space­craft on Nov. 7, Kaza­kh time. The footage also fea­tures scenes of Valenti­na Tereshko­va, the first woman to fly in space, and Alex­ei Leonov, the first human to walk in space.



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