Soyuz spacecraft blasts off to the International Space Station
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A three-person crew aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft launched from Kazakhstan on Sunday (November 23) to the International Space Station.
The TMA-15M carrying NASA astronaut Terry Virts, European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov set off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:01am (November 24) local time (2101gmt November 23).
According to NASA, the crew is expected to dock with the station's Rassvet module at 0253 gmt.
There, they will join Expedition 42 commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore of NASA and Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova of Roscomos who have been at the space station since September.
A three-person crew aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft launched from Kazakhstan on Sunday (November 23) to the International Space Station.
The TMA-15M carrying NASA astronaut Terry Virts, European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov set off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:01am (November 24) local time (2101gmt November 23).
According to NASA, the crew is expected to dock with the station's Rassvet module at 0253 gmt.
There, they will join Expedition 42 commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore of NASA and Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova of Roscomos who have been at the space station since September.