Spacecraft "On Track" for Upcoming Launch

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the vehicle that will carry Expedition 23 Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov and Flight Engineers Mikhail Kornienko and Tracy Caldwell Dyson to the International Space Station was moved to its launch pad on a railcar March 31, 2010. Launch is scheduled for April 2. The trio will spend six months on the station, joining Oleg Kotov, Soichi Noguchi and TJ Creamer, who have been in orbit since December.

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Date published: 1 Apr 2010 - 5:45am

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