This morning, three astronauts are launching inside a Russian Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station, where they’ll stay for the next five and a half months. NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev, and German astronaut Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency are all headed to low Earth orbit, launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7:12AM ET. They’ll be taking the place of three crew members who just left the ISS and landed back on Earth on Sunday.
It’ll mark the first trips to space for both Auñón-Chancellor and Prokopyev, as well as the second trip for Gerst. Originally this crew was supposed to include NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps, who would have become the first...
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