NASA Television Covers the Launch of the Next ISS Crew

Expedition 36/37 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg and Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency launched on the Russian Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft on May 29, Kazakh time (May 28, U.S. time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to begin an accelerated six-hour journey to the International Space Station. Once aboard, the trio will start a five and a half month mission, joining station Commander Pavel Vinogradov of Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy of NASA and Russian Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin, who have been on the station since late March. The footage includes the crew’s pre-launch ceremonial activities at their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters, their departure from the Cosmonaut Hotel to their suit up facility in the Cosmodrome, the

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