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Next space station-bound crew flying fast track to orbiting outpost [i]NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy is on the fast track to the International Space Station (ISS). Not only is he and his two cosmonaut crewmates the next in line to fly to the orbiting laboratory, but they will be the first of the space station's residents to arrive on board the ISS on the same day that they launched. Up until to now, the same trip has taken two days. Set to lift off on Russia's Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft on March 28 at 4:43 p.m. EDT (2043 GMT) — it will be early March 29 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Russia's launch site in Kazakhstan — Cassidy, together with Roscosmos cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Aleksandr Misurkin will reach the station in less time than a typical transatlantic flight.[/i]
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