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[b]Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft, crew poised for launch[/b] Soyuz MS-13 commander Aleksandr Skvortsov of Roscosmos, together with flight engineers Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency (ESA) and Drew Morgan of NASA, are set to launch to the International Space Station on Saturday (July 20) at 12:28 p.m. EDT (1628 GMT; 9:28 p.m. local) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Andrey Shelepin/GCTC They will dock the Soyuz to the space station's Zvezda service module at 6:50 p.m. EDT (2250 GMT) the same day, after a four-orbit rendezvous. About two hours later, the hatches between the Soyuz and the space station will open and Skvortsov, Parmitano and Morgan will be greeted by Expedition 60 commander Aleksey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Nick Hague and Christina Koch, both NASA flight engineers. The launch coincides with the the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission’s historic landing on the moon in 1969. On Thursday (July 18), the Soyuz-FG rocket topped with the Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft was rolled out to the pad by train and erected into position.
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