A Soyuz rocket is set to lift off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2058 GMT (4:58 p.m. EDT). It will carry with a Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft with NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins, Russian commander Oleg Kotov and cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy on board. It will follow “an express six-hour journey to the space station, with docking to the Poisk module at 0248 GMT (10:58 p.m. EDT)” .
More at
- Space Station Mission Report | Mission Status Center – Spaceflight Now
- Space station reinforcements set for launch Wednesday – Spaceflight Now
[ Update: Here is a video of the successful launch:
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