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[b]Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft, film crew poised for launch[/b] Soyuz MS-19 commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, together with actress Yulia Peresild and producer Klim Shipenko, are set to launch to the International Space Station on Tuesday (Oct. 5) at 4:55 a.m. EDT (0855 GMT or 1:55 p.m. local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz is scheduled to dock to the station's Rassvet mini-research module at about 8:12 a.m. EDT (1212 GMT) the same day, after a two-orbit rendezvous. About two hours after docking, the hatches between the Soyuz and the space station will open and Shkaplerov, Peresild and Shipenko will be greeted by Expedition 65 commander Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency (ESA); NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur; Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos. Peresild and Shipenko will spend 12 days on the space station, filming segments for a movie titled "Challenge" under a commercial agreement between Roscosmos and Moscow-based media entities. Peresild and Shipenko will then return to Earth with Novitskiy on Oct. 16 (Oct. 17 Kazakhstan time) on the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft. On Friday (Oct. 1), the Soyuz-2.1a rocket topped with the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft was rolled out to Pad 31/6 by train and erected into position.
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