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[b]Soyuz TMA-09M launches for space station[/b] Expedition 36 flight engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin, Karen Nyberg and Luca Parmitano launched Tuesday (May 28) at 3:31 p.m. CDT (2031 GMT; 2:31 a.m. local time May 29) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The three new International Space Station (ISS) crew members lifted off on board Russia's Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft beginning an expedited six-hour, four-orbit mission to the outpost. They are set to dock to the station's Rassvet mini-research module at 9:17 p.m. CDT (0217 GMT May 29). Expedition 36 commander Pavel Vinogradov and flight engineers Alexander Misurkin and Christopher Cassidy will welcome their new crewmates aboard the space station. Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano are scheduled to live and work aboard the orbiting laboratory until mid-November. They will become members of the ISS Expedition 37 crew under Yurchikhin's command when Vinogradov, Misurkin and Cassidy undock the Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft in September.
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