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[b]Soyuz MS-20, space tourists poised for launch[/b] Soyuz MS-20 commander Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos together with Japanese space flight participants Yusaku Maezawa and Yozo Hirano are set to launch to the International Space Station on Wednesday (Dec. 8) at 2:38 a.m. EST (0738 GMT or 12:38 p.m. local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz is scheduled to dock to the station's Poisk mini-research module at about 8:41 a.m. EDT (1341 GMT) the same day, after a four-orbit rendezvous. About two hours after docking, the hatches between the Soyuz and the space station will open and Misurkin, Maezawa and Hirano will be greeted by Expedition 66 commander Anton Shkaplerov and cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos; NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, and Kayla Barron; and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Matthias Maurer. Misurkin, Maezawa and Hirano will spend 11 days on the space station and then will return to Earth on Dec. 19 on the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft. This will be Misurkin’s third flight into space and the first for Maezawa and Mirano, who are making their self-funded trip into space under a contract between Space Adventures and Roscosmos. On Sunday (Dec. 5), the Soyuz-2.1a rocket topped with the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft was rolled out to Pad 31/6 by train and erected into position.
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