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[b]Soyuz MS-22 crew, rocket poised for launch[/b] Soyuz MS-22 commander Sergey Prokopyev and flight engineer Dmitry Petelin of Roscosmos, together with NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, are set to launch to the International Space Station on Wednesday (Sept. 21) at 9:54 a.m. EDT (1354 GMT or 6:54 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 1:11 p.m. EDT (1711 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 Prokopyev, Petelin and Rubio will be greeted by Expedition 67 commander Oleg Artemyev and cosmonauts Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov of Roscosmos; NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren and Jessica Watkins; and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. Prokopyev, Petelin and Rubio will spend about six months on the space station. This will be Prokopyev’s second flight into space and the first for Petelin and Rubio. Rubio is the first NASA astronaut to fly under a new crew barter agreement since U.S. commercial crew vehicles began flying. On Sunday (Sept. 18), the Soyuz-2.1a rocket topped with the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft was rolled out to Pad 31/6 by train and erected into position.
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