Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Soyuz successfully launches carrying Three Expedition 26 Crew members to Station

Expedition 26 Flight Engineers Russian Dmitry Kondratyev, North American Catherine Coleman and Italian Paolo Nespoli lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard the Soyuz TMA-20 today at 19:09:36 GMT.

They will dock to the station’s Rassvet mini-research module Friday afternoon, Dec 17. After hatch opening the crew will participate in a traditional greeting ceremony, talk to family and officials on the ground then be briefed on station safety procedures.

The next set of visitors to the orbiting laboratory will arrive at the station aboard space shuttle Discovery scheduled for February. The STS-133 crew will deliver and install a logistics carrier and a new storage module.

Read more about Expedition 26 at NASA Exp. 26.

From the Administrator: It was great ... another Soyuz launch (20 and counting) as ISS Flight Controller @ the Columbus Control Center in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany!

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