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[b]Roscosmos announces new Soyuz and Progress launch dates[/b] Station managers from Roscosmos have announced new Soyuz and Progress spacecraft launch dates through the end of the year. Three Soyuz crew missions to the space station have been given new launch dates. The next Soyuz mission, TMA-17M, carrying three Expedition 44/45 crew members is scheduled sometime between July 23 and 25. A Soyuz taxi flight, TMA-18M, that will bring up flight engineer Sergey Volkov and return Commander Gennady Padalka is scheduled for launch Sept. 1. Volkov will be accompanied by ESA astronaut Andres Mogensen and a third crew member yet to be announced. The Expedition 46/47 trio will launch Dec. 15. Three Progress missions were also rescheduled. The first, M-38M, resupply mission is set for July 3 and the next two are planned for Sept. 21 and Nov. 21. In space, station commander Terry Virts and flight engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Samantha Cristoforetti are packing their Soyuz TMA-15M and getting ready for Thursday's (June 11) undocking and landing. The homebound trio will undock at 6:20 a.m. EDT (1020 GMT) and land in Kazakhstan at 9:43 a.m. EDT (1343 GMT).
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